Online MSc in Healthcare Leadership
2 years
Online
Tuition: GBP 9,950
Paid Monthly: GBP 555
Intakes: May 2026
Deadline: 4 May 2026
Course overview
The Online Masters in Healthcare Leadership from the University of Hull explores leadership in healthcare systems in a global context, building knowledge and skills around competency development. It is designed to help Healthcare providers overcome the challenges from across the healthcare spectrum and learn new approaches to problem-solving, critical analysis and people management.
The MSc in Healthcare Leadership will develop your leadership capabilities and enhance the ability to be more effective in your own practices, and the teams you manage. This Healthcare degree teaches leading-edge leadership frameworks and theories, developing the ability to adopt systematic, diligent and evidence-based approaches through the transformative concepts.
What you will learn from the Online Masters in Healthcare Leadership
- Explore leadership as a contestable and dynamic concept
- Learn to critically self-reflect and understand your impact on others
- Develop the skill to conduct informed and insightful decision making
- Learn the policies, systems and context of healthcare leadership
- Develop an in-depth appreciation of the political, emotional and rational aspects of changing practices and services
- Understand the necessity of systematic and critical enquiry and the importance of continuous learning through action
Online MSc in Healthcare Leadership
Online MSc in Healthcare Leadership
Assessment
All assessment for the course is based on coursework and submitted online. There are no exams.
Assessment methods
Your performance on the course will be assessed through a range of methods, such as:
- Guided online discussions/activities
- Online lectures and seminars
- Online tutorials
- Critiques and feedback from your tutor
- Critical self-reflection and independent study
Written assessments
You’ll also be asked to complete a variety of written assessments. Some examples include:
- A professional development plan focused on enhancing leadership skills and based on established approaches to learning
- Commentary on a primary research paper related to quality improvement
- Analysis of an example patient safety incident
- A reflective account of the process of change, with reference to established theories
Benefits
In the face of increasingly complex global healthcare challenges – pandemics, financial austerity, aging populations – exceptional leadership has an essential role to play in order to overcome them.
The Masters in Healthcare Leadership will teach the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to effectively serve in a Leadership and Management capacity in the healthcare field. It provides the ability to challenge your team and yourself to perform to their highest potential.
With an internationally relevant education that provides the ability to influence, communicate and across all types of healthcare teams, explore a career in any part of the world.
Career path
Make a positive impact on the community and industry through a variety of roles:
- Healthcare provider leadership (primary care manager, hospital management)
- Clinical leadership
- Healthcare commissioner leadership
- Healthcare policy maker (e.g., local government)
- Leadership within professional or regulatory bodies
Eligibility
- A minimum 2.2 Honours degree or international equivalent, ideally in a subject related to health or social care
- If you don’t have a 2.2 Honours degree or international equivalent in a related subject, equivalent professional qualifications/personal experience may be considered. Such applicants may also be required to complete an online interview
- A personal statement of around 300-500 words.
- One professional or academic reference
- An IELTS 6.0 score (with minimum 5.5 in each skill). If your first language isn’t English please contact a Higher Education Consultant for more information
Core module
- Critically evaluate established and emerging theories of leadership
- Reflect upon and evaluate your own approach to leadership
- Develop evidence-based approaches to professional development that enhance your own performance as a leader
- Convey complex information effectively and accurately, integrating reference to supporting literature
Assessment methods:
- 50%: Where I am now – a reflection on leadership attributes and approach, integrating and analysing established theories (2500 words)
- 50%: Where I am going – a professional development plan focused on enhancing leadership skills and based on established approaches to learning (2500 words)
- Utilise a systematic understanding of security valuation, investment appraisal, the relationship between risk and return, the cost of capital, capital structure, and dividend policy
- Evidence a critical appreciation of the most important assumptions underlying the strengths and weaknesses of financial theories and frameworks by solving financial management problems through the selection and application of appropriate techniques
- Select, use, and demonstrate understanding of advanced project management tools and techniques relevant to planning, managing, and controlling a complex engineering project involving a wide range of resources within the workplace environment
- Construct and convey to a range of stakeholders, a fully detailed contract / project proposal, including appropriate cost estimates and seeking appropriate guidance with respect to relevant legal and ethical issues
Assessment methods:
- Project management project proposal and plan (70%)
- Financial management online assignment (30%)
- Apply concepts such as complexity and systems theory to the role of a healthcare leader
- Identify and implement evidence-based approaches to enhancing healthcare quality and safety
- Assess, identify and mitigate risk in healthcare, encompassing an understanding of systems and human factors
- Convey complex information effectively and accurately, integrating reference to supporting literature
Assessment methods
- 50%: Commentary on a primary research paper related to quality improvement (2500 words)
- 50%: Analysis of an example patient safety incident (2500 words)
- Understand the global policy context for healthcare delivery and how this impacts on the role of leaders
- Critically and systematically evaluate the opportunities and challenges presented by different models of healthcare delivery
- Convey complex information effectively and accurately, integrating reference to supporting literature
Assessment methods
- 50%: 10-minute presentation exploring any aspect of your national/local healthcare policy
- 50%: Supporting narrative for the presentation, including an account of the historical development of the policy (2500 words)
- Reflect upon and evaluate your own approach to leadership
- Develop evidence-based approaches to professional development that enhance your own performance as a leader
- Identify and implement evidence-based approaches to enhancing healthcare quality and safety
- Systematically search for, select, appraise and analyse literature that supports change in healthcare practice
- Select and apply evidence-based methods and strategies to effect change in healthcare settings
- Use data and critical reflection to evaluate the success or otherwise of changes to practice
- Articulate the key role of research and other forms of evidence as the foundation for informed decision-making in healthcare
- Convey complex information effectively and accurately, integrating reference to supporting literature
Assessment methods
- 20%: Poster summarising the key elements of the project
- 80%: Capstone project
Course fee
Global:
- Course Fee: GBP 9,950
- Monthly Fee: GBP 555
+VAT if applicable
Fees are determined by where applicants are currently working and residing
GBP is Great British Pounds
Academics
Refaat Kazoun
Philippe Riewer
Ajith Kumar
What our student say
Stefans Phopho Thwala
Univeristy of Hull
MSc in Healthcare Leadership
Extremely professional and kindest coaching I have received throughout my application process!
