Full-time: one yearPart-time: two years
Full-time: 10,750*
Part-time: £5,375 per year*
Full-time: £17,340 *
Part-time: £8,670 per year *
Full-time: £17,340 *
Part-time: £8,670 per year *
Northampton Square
This programme is aimed at professionals from any background – both clinical (e.g. medical, nursing and allied health professionals) and non-clinical (e.g. commissioners, managers and policymakers) - working within health or social care organisations who wish to develop their knowledge, understanding and skills relating to integrated and person-centred care.
It is designed to meet the professional needs of those who are either already occupying leadership or management roles, or who wish to move into such roles, and who are interested in leading integrated care initiatives for the benefit of their local populations, service users and carers, and organisations.
The benefits of care that is personalised and coordinated across different healthcare settings, across mental and physical health, and across health and social care have been well documented. It has been shown to improve health and other outcomes for service users, and to reduce fragmentation and inefficiencies in service delivery. It is also seen as a key mechanism for addressing staff shortages and the growing demand for health and social care services.
The development of integrated and person-centred care is therefore now seen as a top priority among policymakers around the world. However, despite many excellent examples of effective integrated services delivering significant improvements in care, progress has been slow and uneven, and much work is still needed in order to embed the culture and practice of integrated care across the whole of the health and social care system.
Creating and sustaining genuine change requires organisations and professionals to work differently, and to adopt a systematic approach to engaging patients in decisions about their health and wellbeing. However, organisations vary widely in their preparedness for change, and in the skills, resources and leadership capacity available to them.
This innovative programme has been designed to help tackle these challenges. It aims to:
To apply for this course, you must have:
If your first language is not English, one of the following qualifications is also required:
International Students (EEA and Non EEA) coming to study in the UK, may need to apply for a visa or entry clearance to come to the UK to study. The way that you apply may vary depending on the length of your course. There are different rules for:
For more information see our main Visa page.
Applications for September 2020 have been suspended.
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
The MSc Leading Integrated Care follows City's guidelines on the Recognition of Prior Certificated Learning (RPCL) and the Recognition of Prior Experiential Learning (RPEL). RPCL/RPEL may be recognised for up to a maximum of 45 academic credits.
For RPCL, if you can demonstrate that you have completed modules (at either City or another institution) that are directly equivalent to the modules for which RPCL is claimed in terms of both curriculum content and academic standing, and these modules are still current (completed within five years of enrolment), then RPCL may be recognised on a direct equivalent basis.
For RPEL, credit may be awarded, at the discretion of the Programme Director, for learning derived from relevant professional and life experience which has not previously been assessed and/or awarded credit.
*Fees in each subsequent year of study (where applicable) will be subject to an annual increase of 2%. We will confirm any change to the annual tuition fee to you in writing prior to you commencing each subsequent year of study (where applicable).
The School of Health Sciences believes that exceptional academic and clinical performance should be recognised and rewarded. We have several scholarships available for students starting on our courses this September and January.
The School of Health Science is one of the first health schools in the UK to open a Technology Enabled Care Studio, City TECS. City TECS is specially designed studio flat at our Northampton Square campus, fully equipped with the latest telehelath and telecare technologies providing City students with the unique opportunity to learn how to use the latest and future healthcare technologies whilst they study.
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The programme adopts a project-based and leadership-focused approach throughout. From the beginning you will be supported in identifying a specific area of need or development within your service or organisation, and in planning an integrated care initiative in order to address this need.
Your learning will be facilitated through innovative teaching methods to promote active learning. Teaching and learning will involve a substantial group work component, providing opportunities for networking and sharing of perspectives.
Programme lecturers will be academic staff from the School of Health Sciences and there will be a range of external visiting lecturers and guest speakers, including experts from the School’s extensive network of practice partners (NHS and social care organisations) across London. These include policy experts, senior managers and leaders and frontline practitioners from many disciplines.
The programme places a strong emphasis on experiential learning, reflection and links with the NHS and social care. Part of each module’s guided and self-directed study component will be dedicated to applying the module’s content to your professional roles and development requirements, and to reflecting on your learning and its application to your own needs and to those of your employer and the wider health and social care system.
The programme uses a blended approach, encompassing both face-to-face and online learning and teaching strategies. It makes full use of available learning technologies whilst recognising the value of face-to-face interaction and facilitation. The variety of methods used will develop your strengths and preferred learning styles, but will also help you to acquire further educational strategies to meet the required outcomes of the programme.
A typical 15-credit module involves a total of around 25 hours of contact time (i.e. lecturers, seminars and group activities). In addition, you will be expected to undertake 125 independent study hours for the module (for 30-credit modules, the hours will be double). Some of these hours will include use of online learning tools, such as Moodle. The final integrated care project (Dissertation) involves 600 hours of study, comprising around 3 hours of lectures/workshops, 12 hours of one-to-one supervision meetings and 585 hours of self-directed study.
A range of methods will be used throughout the programme, including lectures, seminars, guided independent study, student-directed learning and online learning.
Assessment
The programme’s assessment strategy has been designed to allow module assignments to be tailored to your specific learning and professional development needs.
There will be a variety of assessment methods to evaluate your knowledge and skills in all aspects of the programme.
The programme is structured around the main stages or ‘building blocks’ required for the successful development and implementation of any integrated care initiative:
The links between theory, evidence and practical application are emphasised at all stages of the programme.
Each core module will address one or more of the main building blocks of integrated care:
You will also choose two further 15-credit (or one 30-credit) elective modules from the wide range of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) modules offered by the School of Health Sciences (subject to availability and capacity). These may relate to topics such as health policy, public health, health economics or health and social care commissioning.
Drawing on your learning from the taught component of the programme, you will write a Dissertation in the form of an integrated care project report of between 12,000 and 15,000 words, focused on the design and planning of a specific integrated/person-centred care initiative (60 credits).
The programme specification contains more information on how the course is organised, the requirements for progression for each part and credits required for awards.
Because integrated and person-centred care are increasingly high priorities for policymakers and organisations which commission or provide health and social care services, the knowledge, understanding and transferrable skills in developing, leading and evaluating integrated care initiatives that you will acquire on the programme are likely to be in increasing demand across the health and social care sector (public, private and voluntary).
In addition to the core skills required to plan and lead an integrated care initiative, the transferrable skills that you will acquire on the programme include:
Applications for September 2020 have been suspended.
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
The MSc Leading Integrated Care follows City's guidelines on the Recognition of Prior Certificated Learning (RPCL) and the Recognition of Prior Experiential Learning (RPEL). RPCL/RPEL may be recognised for up to a maximum of 45 academic credits.
For RPCL, if you can demonstrate that you have completed modules (at either City or another institution) that are directly equivalent to the modules for which RPCL is claimed in terms of both curriculum content and academic standing, and these modules are still current (completed within five years of enrolment), then RPCL may be recognised on a direct equivalent basis.
For RPEL, credit may be awarded, at the discretion of the Programme Director, for learning derived from relevant professional and life experience which has not previously been assessed and/or awarded credit.
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