MS902-20 Managing Resources in Healthcare
Introductory description
Healthcare staff exercise leadership by managing resources.
This module provides an opportunity for participants to gain an understanding of what resources are available and using their influence to ensure that resources are used efficiently and safely, and reflect the diversity of needs.
Module aims
The aim of this module is to enable students to:
- Identify the appropriate type and level of resources required to deliver safe and effective services.
- Ensure services are delivered within allocated resources.
- Minimise waste.
- Take action when resources are not being used efficiently and effectively.
Outline syllabus
This is an indicative module outline only to give an indication of the sort of topics that may be covered. Actual sessions held may differ.
The outline syllabus gives an indication of the sort of topics that will be covered in the module.
The module will contain the following topics:
- Financial management essentials
- Recording financial data
- Presenting financial data, both internally and externally
- Using financial data to understand and manage the business
- The purpose and implementation of the planning and budgeting process
- How to make a business case
- Developing a good business case
- Evaluating a business case
- Political and economics drivers
- Key drivers and influences of costs
- Juggling budgetary pressures with increasing patient and consumer demands
- Identifying and harnessing champions to build a common vision
- Resource allocation and service rationalisation
- Identifying and minimising waste
- Introducing change for more efficient working
- Value stream mapping
Learning outcomes
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
- Critically evaluate policies which determine public funding allocation for healthcare.
- Evaluate the processes by which resources are deployed within a service.
- Assess utilisation of resource and identify how extra resources can be bought into an organisation.
- Justify the efficient and effective prioritisation of resources in order to provide healthcare.
- Assess and evaluate commission, funding, contracting and financial arrangements relevant to their service.
- Understand and be able to apply resource management principles in the context of the student’s organisation to recommend improvements to operational efficiency.
Interdisciplinary
Healthcare Leadership is usually considered to be a single discipline. However, this module / course draws on the expertise from 3 distinct areas within the University (Medical School, Business School and Manufacturing Group). It is therefore certainly inter-departmental, and many will consider it to be interdisciplinary.
International
The course will recruit from (and be delivered in) multiple territories, with content tailored to the students’ own territories.
Subject specific skills
Ability to present financial data.
Ability to prioritise resources in a healthcare context.
Understanding operational efficiency.
Transferable skills
Improvement of a range of transferable skills, including:
- Written communication
- Oral communication
- Numeracy
- Commercial awareness
- Organisation & time management
- Independence & initiative
Study time
| Type | Required |
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| Online learning (scheduled sessions) | 30 sessions of 1 hour (19%) |
| Online learning (independent) | 130 sessions of 1 hour (81%) |
| Total | 160 hours |
Private study description
No private study requirements defined for this module.
Costs
No further costs have been identified for this module.
You do not need to pass all assessment components to pass the module.
Assessment group A1
| Weighting | Study time | Eligible for self-certification | |
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Assessment component |
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| Business case for managing resources in healthcare | 20% | 10 hours | Yes (extension) |
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A 7-minute pre-recorded presentation on a business case for managing resources in healthcare. |
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Reassessment component is the same |
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Assessment component |
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| The availability of public funding for healthcare | 80% | 30 hours | Yes (extension) |
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A 2,500-word report analysing how public funding is made available within the student's healthcare organisation.
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Reassessment component is the same |
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Feedback on assessment
Submissions will be marked and moderated using a standardised rubric based on the following assessment criteria:
- analysis
- application
- communication
- evaluation
- knowledge
- understanding
Feedback, including marks, will be given electronically to students.
The pass mark is 50% overall.
It is not necessary to pass each component of the module independently.
We will apply a compensatory grading approach that will enable students to carry a failed component, as long as their aggregated mark is at least 50%.
This will apply to the Presentation (which will be 20% of the final mark) and the Written Report (which will be 80% of the final mark).
Pre-requisites
As the modules are not yet approved, I am unable to select them in these sections.
This module has the following pre-requisite modules:
- NT-16082 Leadership and Management in Healthcare
- NT-16083 Improving Quality and Safety in Healthcare
- NT-16084 Diagnosing the System in Healthcare
- NT-16092 Health Leadership and Financial Management
This module has the following post-requisite modules:
- NT-16091 Strategy and Growth Planning in Healthcare
This module has the following anti-requisite modules:
- NT-16086 Leading Change in Healthcare
- NT-16090 Quality and Productivity in Healthcare
There is currently no information about the courses for which this module is core or optional.