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This six-week online course for health and healthcare managers will help you design and implement policy reform efficiently in your organisation.
You’ll learn how health policies and healthcare governance are shaped and set, and how to manage health policies and law reforms as they arise.
Learning to proactively managing policy reform, while creating a resilient learning organisation through change management, will help you steer your organisation forward.
The course draws on a wide range of research and professional experience as well as case study examples. You'll be encouraged to ask questions and interrogate content together.
Course aims
The aim of this course is to help you:
- understand the principles and objectives guiding health policy and law and their application
- assess published evidence of the effectiveness and efficiency of health policy and legal interventions and their impact on healthcare services
- identify and apply methods of evaluating health policy interventions using the principles of health services research
- embed health policy reforms in your organisation by applying management learning in change management
Who this course is for
This course is for managers across the health and healthcare sector, who have responsibility for areas of health policy and practice.
You may work in:
- human resources
- a clinical setting
- policymaking
- healthcare management.
It's also suitable for people who work in an industry related to health, where you need an understanding of health policy and practice.
Course content
The course includes three modules:
- Health policy and practice
This module introduces you to health policies, including an evaluation of historic and current health policy interventions in the UK and other health systems.
You'll also look at the principles of health policy and reform, as well as experimental and quasi-experimental techniques for evaluating health policy interventions.
- Health and the legal system
Looking at the key aspects of law related to healthcare, this module explores themes including moral values, constitutional legitimacy of law-making processes, clinical freedom, indeterminacy and the Rule of Law.
Topics will include:
- consent to treatment
- confidentiality
- specific medical techniques and technologies
- aspects of public health law
- Change Management
This module examines the theory and practice of leading and managing organisational change, exploring policy change as one aspect of change management.
You'll look at different ways to design a change management strategy, including the meaningful measurement of outcomes and impact.
Teaching and structure
You'll study each of the 3 modules over two weeks, spending approximately 10 to 12 hours on various activities including:
- watching live online lectures and pre-recorded videos
- reading
- taking part in discussion forum activities
- completing marked project assignments
There'll be a weekly online live session with the course lead that all students may attend.
Assessment, certificates and accreditation
You'll receive a certificate of completion and CPD points awarded by The CPD Certification Service when you've completed all the marked assignments for each of the three modules. These include mandatory discussion forums, short written assignments and a final project.
You'll also be able to assess how you're doing throughout the course by completing multiple choice quizzes and unmarked self-reflection exercises.
Professor Nora Ann Colton
Nora is Director of the UCL Global Business School for Health. She's a health and international development economist specialising in the Middle East. She speaks Arabic and publishes on issues relating to globalisation and health in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Nora has a wealth of experience in leadership and change management along with designing leadership training programmes across a number of sectors.
Suzanne Wait
Suzanne Wait is Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Health Policy Partnership, a health policy research consultancy based in London. She has over 20 years experience in health policy research, analysis and advice, working across Europe and globally across all sectors within health. Her expertise is in creating and leading multistakeholder partnerships to drive policy change. A systems thinker, her approach is deeply rooted in public health and policy training, and is multidisciplinary.
