About Postgraduate Diploma in Advancing Healthcare Practice

This postgraduate diploma course equips you with a broad range of knowledge, skills, insights and qualities needed to function as a successful change agent both in healthcare leadership and in evidence based healthcare practice. You will develop the sorts of change insights and practice development understanding that will enable you to make a strategic difference to the work of your employer, team and service as well as a thoughtful contribution to best practice within your profession. Key insights into change, and, what you can do to manage it, equip you with the confidence to make an identifiable difference in practice. The modules you study for this postgraduate diploma, Leading healthcare improvements (K827) and Researching and evaluating healthcare practice (K828), will provide you with critically important insights into how healthcare changes, what constitutes improvement and quality and how different sorts of work can materially improve the lot of stakeholders within your practice, be they patients, relatives, students, research subjects, subordinates or superiors. You also study the mechanisms of change and discover how the management of these can help position your team, organisation or yourself to deliver better healthcare. You achieve this by pursuing a series of investigations, some in practice, some online, some in close association with work colleagues and others in consultation with the study group to develop your effectiveness as a healthcare practitioner. Our study guides lead you through the enquiries that you should make, assisting you to develop confidence as an independent enquirer, someone comfortably able to make sense of the sometimes confusing and conflicting nature of healthcare information. As well as representing an important qualification in its own right, the postgraduate diploma course also provides a route to enable you to gain the MSc in Advancing Healthcare Practice (F52).