MSc, PgDip / PgCert Healthcare Practice (Community and Primary Care route)

Overview

You will demonstrate an ability and a contemporary vision to lead, influence, and critically evaluate change, responding to the rapidly evolving health and social care agenda, in a positive and proactive way.

This route will provide you with the opportunity to develop as advanced skilled practitioners with higher levels of critical thinking and the ability to critically analyse, synthesise and evaluate knowledge and its application to practice.

You will critically explore an understanding of individuals with complex care needs across the life span from a biopsychosocial and spiritual approach. You will work across disciplines and integrated care systems to develop an enhanced understanding of the key underpinning concepts. The route will enable you to evaluate the impact of advanced practice upon the patient experience and quality of care delivered.

Why study MSc Healthcare Practice (Community and Primary Care route)?

This course is for healthcare practitioners seeking to develop professional practice, including the practice of others that you work with in the community and primary care setting to provide high quality care. It recognises the importance of advanced practice and continued professional development and enables you to apply advanced and specialist subject knowledge in the community and primary care setting.

Your future career

This pathway is an opportunity for students wishing to professionally develop and be aligned to a clear career progression route specific to working in community and primary care clinical settings. Graduating practitioners will demonstrate an ability and a contemporary vision to lead, influence, and critically evaluate change, responding to the rapidly evolving health and social care agenda, in a positive and proactive way.

The course has been designed to be student-centred so that you will be able to develop advanced understanding, knowledge, and skills within your field of practice and closely aligns to the ethos of work-based learning encompassing the role of the employer.

Perspectives from a range of stakeholders including the external academic advisor, practitioners and employers has been taken into consideration within the route to ensure that the route meets professional requirements and identified workforce needs.

Experts by experience will be involved in the delivery of the route and practitioners have worked in partnership academics to develop the route specific modules to ensure they were contemporary, visionary and met identified educational and local/national care needs. Meetings will continue with both our external stakeholder employers and practitioners as the route develops and is evaluated.

Entrants are typically required to: hold either a relevant degree at 2.2 or above (normally a degree in a health or social science subject), and a professional registration to practise in health care; have worked within the community/ primary care setting for at least one year.