Contemporary Issues in Health Care Management

This module is designed to provide students with an opportunity to examine in depth a number of distinct and specialist topics that reflect contemporary management issues in health.

It will enable students to explore and analyse a range of contemporary management theories and issues in order to critically evaluate various techniques that are utilised in management and consider how they can be implemented in a variety of health care settings.

It will provide students with the opportunity to analyse management practice and the factors which promote or constrain organisations in a variety of settings and to facilitate informed debate amongst students with different experiences from varied backgrounds, working in diverse environments.

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Key information

Module Category: HEST
Module Code: 5006
Module Credits: 30
Module Level: 7

Module leader

Simon Moralee
E: smoral@dmu.ac.

Semesters

Semester 2:

1 - 4 Wednesday in Academic weeks 18-27, 31-32

Return to study

This module covers management and organisational theory. If you have already undertaken HEST 5002 you will be familiar with the following key texts and policy documents:

Davies, P. (2012). The NHS handbook 2012/13: The essential guide to the new NHS. 13th Edition, London: The NHS Confederation.

Department of Health (2010). Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS, July, Gateway reference: 14385, CM7881. London: The Stationery Office. Available from: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_117353

Doherty, T.L. & Horne T. (2002). Managing Public Services: Implementing Changes. London: Routledge.

Mahon, A., Walshe, K., Chambers, N. (2009). A Reader in Health Policy and Management. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Mullins, L.J (2010). Management and Organisational Behaviour. 9th Edition, Prentice-Hall Financial Times. (previous editions also)

NHS Commissioning Board (2012). Everyone Counts: Planning for Patients 2013/14 [online]. Leeds: NHS Commissioning Board. Available from: http://www.commissioningboard.nhs.uk/everyonecounts/ and http://www.commissioningboard.nhs.uk/2012/12/17/everyonecounts/

Talbot-Smith, A. & Pollock, A. M. (2006). The New NHS: A Guide Routledge

Walshe, K., Smith, J. (2011) (Eds.) Healthcare Management. 2nd edition, Maidenhead: Open University Press. (There is also the 2006 first edition)

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