This module provides you with a deep understanding of rigorous scientific but practical patient safety and quality improvement principles and methods. You will apply these concepts to real-world safety and quality problems through case studies, simulation, and virtual workshops, as well as to challenges faced by yourself or your own organisation. It also serves as an introductory module for the whole programme.

This module helps you understand the building blocks of the health system, such as financing systems, human resources, information policy, service delivery, and leadership and governance. It shows how an understanding of these domains, and their interrelatedness, should inform the design of effective policies, and ensure that resources are used wisely.

This module helps you develop a detailed understanding of the social impact of patient safety and related academic theories, including an understanding of the attitudes towards and models of patient involvement.

This module takes a holistic, systems approach to patient safety and quality improvement. Through a range of exercises, case studies and learning activities, you will develop your understanding of how systemic and organisational approaches to quality and safety, including contextual factors, such as organisational processes and culture, can influence outcomes. Theories for the analysis, simulation and evaluation of systems are linked to real-world healthcare examples.

Health policy makers are often criticised for their inability to stimulate or comprehend innovation. This module attempts to address this gap by considering the principles of innovation in healthcare, how innovation comes about, the role of different sectors and the health policy implications of future innovation.

This module equips you with an understanding of medical decision making. You will be familiarised with medical decision making as a quantitative field of study, as well as a study of the psychological processes underlying judgement and decision making.

This module introduces you to human factors within healthcare and across other industries. In addition to gaining an understanding of the context, background and historical perspective of the field, you will also gain practical tools and methods that have been applied in human factors.

Through this module you will develop your insights into the kind of leadership required to tackle our most vexing challenges in health care. You will build knowledge of what is required to exercise effective leadership and to successfully deliver reforms in healthcare on an institutional, regional, national and international stage.