Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Leadership

Elevate your heathcare journey

Level 7 accredited Diploma in Healthcare Leadership (PgDip)

This pioneering, online programme, accredited by the globally renowned EduQual to Level 7 (EduQual Level 11), is specifically designed to develop the healthcare leaders of tomorrow. With a curriculum tailored to the realities of modern healthcare and faculty comprised of world-class educators, this is more than just a qualification—it’s a transformative experience that will elevate your career to new heights.

The course has been tailored to meet the needs of international healthcare gradautes seeking to find a clinical or leadership role in the NHS. The programme combines a fine balance of strategic thinking and operational challenges, and cullminated in an essay format final assessment, where you are tasked with developing an real-world solution to a challenge statement provided to you around the NHS.

This online PgDip in healthcare leadership is a pragmatic course, designed and delivered by world-renowned medical educators and comprehensively closes the gap in clinician leadership and management competency.

Our Postgraduate Diploma takes 3-to-6-months to complete. It is self-paced and taught online, through our custom built education platform.

To apply to this programme, you must: 

  • have an honours degree or equivalent from a recognised institution.

  • Be working in the healthcare sector.

  • Have an appropriate standard of English language proficiency.

Are you a healthcare student in your final year? Start our programme during your final year of studies, and leave university with an additional Postgraduate Qualification in Healthcare Leadership to set you apart! Contact admissions for more information!

The most accessible Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Leadership, breaking down barriers to higher education and leadership training. Our fees for to enrol onto this diploma are £3,250.00. Monthly subscription, instalments and discounts are available.

January, May and September 2024.

This programme is ideal for doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, interdisciplinary health and social care professionals, healthcare managers and administrators and those working in the wider healthcare sector who wish to transition into leadership or management roles within healthcare organisations.

As an independent provider, we also take on a number of final year healthcare students each year, allowing them to study the programme during the final year of university. Award of the diploma is dependent on successful completion of their university degree. Please contact admissions for more information.

Over 200+ students enrolled and counting.

I was searching for a postgraduate program for quite some time when I came across the College of Healthcare Leadership. It has all the right ingredients in place to provide quality education and abundant exposure to current trends in healthcare industry. I am privileged to be guided by highly qualified and experienced faculty members and enhance my leadership skills to boost my career prospects in the UK.
Dr F. HussainInternship Doctor from Pakistan
"This interactive and flexible programme from the College of Healthcare Leadership is tailor-made for healthcare professionals with busy schedules like me. Obtaining this postgraduate certificate has also provided me an alternative pathway to switch to more administrative roles."
Dr T. PeiDoctor, Taiwan
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Programme Overview

Throughout the programme, you’ll engage in: online group tutorials, tutor-moderated discussion forums, interactive case studies, reflective exercises. The programme is broken down into the following modules:

  • Understanding leadership and management

  • Understanding motivation

  • Influencing skills

  • Giving and receiving feedback

  • Assignment guidance tutorials & self-directed learning

  • Understanding safety, quality and performance in healthcare settings

  • Understanding new constructs of patient safety

  • Key concepts and processes of enquiry

  • Key models for developing effective improvement plans

  • Working with providers and consumers iteratively to design safer and high-quality systems

  • Analysis underpinning service improvement

  • Evidence based systems diagnosis

  • Learning, Discovery and Problem solving frameworks

  • Appreciative inquiry in Leadership Development & Organisational change

  • Using feedback in healthcare assessments

  • Reframing Organisations

  • The definition and drivers of engagement

  • Putting feedback into action

  • Establishing trust

  • Leading with purpose

  • Reactions to change – understanding optimism vs pessimism

  • Key models of change

  • Overcoming resistance in yourself

  • Planning to deliver change – change champions

  • Understanding the viral nature of behavioural change

  • Project managing change

  • Stakeholder analysis and bringing people together
  • Helping others to interpret future impact of decisions
  • Creating cross sectoral collaborations
  • Framing the context for change
  • Policy Analysis, development and implementation
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Your research-based professional project will culminate in a ‘conference ready’ poster presentation and 4,000 word article ready for submission to peer-reviewed journals.

Accreditation

The College of Healthcare Leadership is an EquQual-approved Training centre. EduQual is a regulated awarding body, approved by SQA-Accreditation, a globally-recognised national qualifications regulator in the UK. EduQual Is a full member of the UK Federation of Awarding Bodies (FAB).

How to apply

Please contact admissions@leadership.healthcare