University Of Warwick, WMG Department
MSc Healthcare Operational Management
STEMFormat
Full timeDuration
12 monthsTuition fee
37460 GBPStart date
28 September, 2026Application deadline
01 July, 2026This MSc in Healthcare Operational Management has been designed to fulfil the specific needs and requirements of graduates interested in a management or leadership role within the complex healthcare service sector.
Healthcare organisations share commonalities with production facilities, including the need for efficient process flow, change management, and quality standards. As a student you will explore the principles, approaches, strategies, and techniques for analysing, designing, and managing complex healthcare systems. You will learn to measure efficiency and improve effectiveness, productivity without compromising quality or safety.
Throughout the year, you’ll acquire the skills and knowledge to assess organisational performance and drive the development and implementation of innovation in healthcare organisations in order to bring about improvement. Ultimately, the course aims to strengthen diverse health systems and their capacity to deliver effective care efficiently. Evidence underpinning course material is drawn from around the world to ensure that students are well equipped with the essential skills and knowledge necessary to drive design, development, implementation, and innovation in the organisation of health services.
The course is suitable for students who are particularly interested in: (i) redesigning health systems to improve access to care; (ii) evidence-based decision making to improve quality outcomes; (iii) facilitating better communication and trust between patients and providers; (iv) harnessing data and technologies including the transformative abilities of artificial intelligence to innovate service delivery provisions; and (v) developing innovative ways of providing sound and cost-effective care efficiently.
The modules you will cover on the course are:
- Leading Change in Healthcare
- Quality and Productivity in Health Service Systems
- Epidemiological and Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement
- Introduction to Health EconomicsLink opens in a new window
- Informatics for Operational Management in Healthcare
- Decision Making for Healthcare Quality Improvement
- Operational Management and Clinical Systems Improvement
- Healthcare Systems Redesign
In addition to your taught modules you will undertake a major research project. This will be broadly related to issues of quality and productivity in the healthcare context and will allow you to focus on an aspect of particular interest to you. For example, that may be around healthcare service design, the use of big data and artificial intelligence in healthcare, the use of technology to improve service delivery, or the implementation of innovation in hospital care - the scope is very wide.
