Drive healthcare excellence and lead transformational change
University of Gloucestershire’s 100% online MBA Healthcare Management provides a comprehensive understanding of global, community, and public health, as well as how to navigate licensing, regulatory, accreditation, and compliance issues within healthcare organisations of all sizes.
Across three specialised modules, you’ll explore healthcare leadership and administration, healthcare quality analytics, and quality management. You’ll also learn how to leverage big data to identify opportunities and use quality care metrics to enhance service delivery and improve patient outcomes.
Tailored to the lives of working professionals you can adapt your studies to your professional and personal commitments and be prepared to lead with confidence in healthcare systems around the world. You’ll gain a strong foundation in strategic leadership, healthcare policy, and operational management—equipping you to navigate complex challenges and drive positive change in hospitals, clinics, and health organisations.
Course overview
Prepare to lead and manage in fast-paced healthcare environments. This course equips you with the practical knowledge and analytical skills to improve patient outcomes, organisational efficiency, and care quality.
You’ll explore how to implement quality management principles, drive continuous improvement, and ensure regulatory compliance. Through topics such as Quality Management, Healthcare Quality Analytics, and Healthcare Leadership and Administration, you’ll learn how to analyse healthcare data, develop patient-focused strategies, and lead multidisciplinary teams with confidence.
Skills and knowledge
Graduates of this course will be able to:
Lead diverse teams by applying leadership theory and practices
Demonstrate key competencies in healthcare leadership and administration
Use healthcare analytics and quality management tools effectively
Leverage big data and metrics to enhance healthcare delivery and outcomes
Develop tech-driven solutions to improve value and efficiency in global healthcare
Entry requirements
To study Gloucestershire’s 100% online MBA Healthcare Management, you will need to have completed:
A 2:2 undergraduate honours degree (or international equivalent)
OR
A minimum of three years of relevant work experience (CV required, including one reference).
English language requirements
If English is not your first language, or if your most recent education or work experience was not conducted in English, you must demonstrate proficiency through an approved English language test. This includes IELTS (minimum overall score of 6.0, with no individual component below 5.5) or an equivalent qualification.
Modules
Healthcare Leadership and Administration
Develop the leadership and administrative skills required to manage effectively within diverse healthcare environments. You’ll gain practical knowledge in areas such as budgeting, staffing, policy development, and regulatory compliance, while also exploring safety and communication strategies. You’ll examine leadership styles and decision-making approaches suited to today’s global healthcare landscape. This module equips you to take on leadership roles and confidently address the complex challenges facing modern healthcare organisations.
Healthcare Quality Analytics
Discover how data and analytics is used in improving healthcare delivery. You’ll work with patient records, databases, and electronic medical systems to understand how information can be leveraged to improve care quality and operational efficiency. You'll explore the concept of clinical intelligence and learn how to interpret complex data sets to inform strategic decisions. The focus is on transforming raw data into meaningful insights that drive improvements across both private and public healthcare systems.
Quality Management
Learn about key principles of quality management within healthcare. You’ll examine how quality impacts both organisational performance and patient outcomes, and how best to apply improvement practices across a healthcare setting. Topics include patient safety, regulatory compliance, risk management, and quality improvement strategies. By the end, you’ll understand how to create a culture of safety and continuous improvement, and how to align quality initiatives with wider healthcare standards and objectives.
Leadership and Organisation behaviour
Explore what it means to be an effective leader and learn how to navigate change and lead ethically within multicultural and diverse settings. You’ll focus on emotional intelligence, reflective leadership, and responsible decision-making. Drawing links between classical leadership theories and modern-day challenges, you’ll build a toolkit to lead with integrity and purpose in complex organisational environments.
Economics for Managers
Explore key economic concepts, models, and analytical tools to support sound managerial decision-making. You’ll study supply and demand dynamics, market structures—from perfect competition to monopoly—and the theory of the firm at a micro level. At the macro level, you’ll examine fiscal and monetary policy, along with broader topics such as international trade, financial markets, economic growth, and externalities. By applying economic reasoning, you’ll learn to evaluate trade-offs and make choices that align with organisational objectives.
Finance for Managers
Develop the essential financial knowledge to support day-to-day operations and long-term strategic planning. You’ll explore the time value of money, investment options, capital expenditure decisions, and financial structuring. With a focus on cash flow management and asset allocation, you’ll gain the skills to guide your organisation’s financial sustainability and growth.
Strategic Decision Making for Managers
Develop your capacity to make informed strategic decisions by examining how organisations build capabilities to compete effectively. You’ll study decision-making frameworks drawn from global business practices and apply them across a range of firm sizes and industries. You’ll strengthen your ability to align strategy with the external environment while fulfilling long-term objectives.
Business Strategy
You’ll gain a clear understanding of strategic thinking and how it supports long-term organisational success. This module introduces key theories, models, and analytical tools that help general managers make sound, value-adding decisions. Whether in the public, private, or non-profit sectors, you’ll learn to assess competitive positioning, build strategic capabilities, and lead your organisation with a forward-thinking mindset.
Operations Management
Explore the core elements of operations management and their critical role in business success. You’ll analyse areas such as process and capacity planning, quality management, materials and facilities planning, and operations strategy. Whether you work in consulting, start-ups, or corporate leadership, you’ll build the skills to optimise resources and drive operational efficiency.
Research Methods for Business and Management
Develop a solid foundation in both academic and consultancy-based business research. This module guides you in identifying research problems, conducting literature reviews, and designing effective methodologies. You’ll learn about philosophical underpinnings, research ethics, and practical methods for gathering and analysing data. By the end, you’ll be ready to produce a rigorous, well-designed research proposal.
Applied Research for Business and Management (30 credits)
Develop and apply your knowledge of research methods to tackle a real-world business issue. You’ll define a research problem, design your study, gather and analyse data, and deliver practical recommendations. Whether you pursue a thesis or project, you’ll demonstrate your ability to conduct independent, applied research that adds value to your field.
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