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Post Graduate Diploma in Health Service Leadership and Quality Management

Postgraduate Diploma

Prepares current and aspiring healthcare leaders to effectively lead, manage, transform and continuously improve health systems and healthcare organisations.

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Program Highlights

Program Highlights A Pathway to a Successful Business Career

Health Systems Leadership

Apply leadership theories and systems thinking in healthcare organisations.

Patient Safety & Clinical Risk

Establish safe healthcare organisations through proactive risk management.

Capstone QI Project

Lead a workplace healthcare quality improvement initiative.

The programme integrates leadership, quality management, patient safety, governance, health policy and strategic management, aligned with WHO, IHI, ISQua and JCI standards.

The Post Graduate Diploma in Health Service Leadership and Quality Management programme gave me practical, industry-relevant skills I use every day.

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Programme Outcomes

Graduates will explain the structure and governance of health systems, apply leadership principles to healthcare organisations, design quality improvement initiatives, and promote patient safety and continuous improvement.

  • Apply leadership theories and systems thinking to healthcare organisations.
  • Design and implement quality improvement initiatives using recognised methodologies.
  • Promote patient safety and evidence-based decision-making.

Programme Curriculum

The full module structure of this programme is set out below.

  • Health systems leadership
  • Leadership theories
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Systems thinking, organizational culture and governance
  • Global health systems and primary healthcare
  • Universal Health Coverage
  • Health financing and stewardship
  • Public-private partnerships and health sector reforms
  • WHO Patient Safety Framework and safety culture
  • Incident reporting and Root Cause Analysis
  • Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
  • Medication safety and clinical governance
  • Lean Healthcare, Six Sigma, 5S, Kaizen
  • Total Quality Management (TQM)
  • Model for Improvement and PDSA cycles
  • Quality indicators and performance measurement
  • Bioethics and human rights
  • Medical law and confidentiality
  • Professional ethics and governance
  • Research ethics and emerging ethical issues
  • Strategic planning and organizational development
  • Change management and innovation
  • Performance management and Balanced Scorecard
  • Stakeholder management
  • Workforce planning and human resource management
  • Employee engagement and performance appraisal
  • Team development and labour relations
  • Talent management and leadership development
  • Monitoring and evaluation frameworks
  • Health Management Information Systems (HMIS)
  • Key Performance Indicators and dashboard development
  • Data quality and decision support
  • Research methods and proposal development
  • Epidemiology and biostatistics
  • Scientific writing and publication
  • Knowledge translation
  • Healthcare financing and budgeting
  • Financial management and procurement
  • Supply chain management
  • Cost-effectiveness and financial governance
  • Digital health and Artificial Intelligence
  • Telemedicine and Electronic Health Records
  • Health informatics and innovation management
  • Cybersecurity and digital transformation
  • Problem identification and situation analysis
  • Root cause analysis and implementation planning
  • Monitoring, evaluation and report writing
  • Oral presentation and dissemination of findings

Certification Requirements

Candidates must attend at least 80% of scheduled learning activities, complete all twelve taught modules, pass continuous assessments and examinations, and successfully complete and defend the Capstone Quality Improvement Project to be awarded the Post Graduate Diploma in Health Service Leadership and Quality Management.

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