BSc (Hons) Public Health and Health Services Management

• A Level: Must include passes at A2 in at least one subject.
• BTEC: Extended Diploma (QCF) or Diploma (QCF)
• International Baccalaureate: Diploma with 24 points including a minimum of 15 points at Higher Level.

Note: We would normally expect you to have Grade C in GCSE English and Maths.

English Language Requirements:

• Overall IELTS score of 6.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking (or recognised equivalent).

In your first year, we’ll give you a firm grounding in health, management, research and policy concepts so that you’ll have a comprehensive understanding of the way in which healthcare operates in the UK.

You’ll also start learning about epidemiology, the science that studies the patterns, causes and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations.

In year two, you’ll move on to the key principles of management and how they’re applied in health and research.

In your final year, you’ll look at more advanced management concepts, explore healthcare financing options and tackle your own major research project.

We’ve seen how such research can inspire important pieces of work. For instance, one of our Health Services Management students, on secondment from the London Ambulance Service, produced an acclaimed thesis on improving the service’s call-out efficiency. Some of his 
recommendations were later implemented by the service.

Year 1

• Understanding Health and Healthcare in the UK 
• Personal and Professional Skills 
• Introduction to Research Methods 

Optional:

• Introduction to Epidemiology
• Key concepts in Health Promotion 
• Introduction to health systems and their management 

Year 2

• Employability 
• Research Methods and Skills 

Optional:

• Social Patterns of Health and Illness
• Services and Operations Management in Health systems
• Practical Epidemiology
• Health Policy
• Global Health 

Year 3

• Research Project 

Optional:

• Integrative public health 
• Service design, transformation and leadership 
• Critical practice and perspectives in health promotion 
• Evidence synthesis 
• Prevention and control of CDs and NCDs
• Infection control in healthcare
• Gender, Sexuality and Health 
• Health promotion and later life
• Global and local perspectives in health 
• Strategy and commissioning 
• Health service finance 
• Professional practice in healthcare 
• Comparative Health Services 
• Patient safety and service quality 
• Achieving health service improvements using Lean Six Sigma 
• Service Quality in Healthcare