Integrated Governance in Health and Social Care: University of Westminster

Introduction

This multi-professional course delivers a curriculum that addresses the complex nature of governance across health and social care. It critically examines a range of governance policies and strategies and how they impact on practice. The course aims to develop your skills, knowledge and reflective capacity to understand and manage the demands of this rapidly changing field of healthcare quality assurance.

Practical aspects of the course are largely carried out at your workplace, in collaboration with employers and colleagues.

Current students include clinical governance managers, quality assurance staff, audit facilitators, nurses, midwives, clinical risk leads, social care managers and occupational therapists.

Course Content

The course is a mixture of core and option modules:

• Clinical Governance (core)
• Clinical Risk Management
• Collaborative Working within Health and Social Care
• Dissertation project (research, evaluation, audit or publication)
• Integrated Governance
• Interprofessional and Interagency Dynamics
• Managing Change
• Health Economics and Policy an International Perspective (pending)
• Technology and the Future of Health Care Delivery (pending)
• Research and Evaluation (core)
• Free choice module from anywhere in the University

The Postgraduate Certificate can be awarded after successfully completing three modules, and the Postgraduate Diploma can be awarded after successfully completing six modules.

Associated Careers

You will benefit from consolidating and expanding your current knowledge base in preparation for developing your career within your own or similar organisations. The knowledge acquired is transferable across all areas of health and social care, thus enabling transition between different aspects of public and independent health care, social care and the voluntary sector. Employment may be found, for example, in posts within clinical governance, quality assurance, audit, research and evaluation, practice development, and clinical risk management.

Entry Requirements

• You should have at least one years' experience within a health or social care organisation, and either have an Honours degree or demonstrate an ability to work at postgraduate level.