Unit name | Healthcare services, policy and finance |
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Unit code | BRMSM0008 |
Credit points | 10 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Kipping |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Bristol Medical School |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
This unit provides students with the knowledge and understanding about how different models of healthcare are structured, financed and provided in developed and developing countries. It will be underpinned by concepts of health, wellbeing and illness and the role of medicine and healthcare at a societal level. The unit will allow students to consider how the models for primary care and secondary care are evolving, using the UK as a case study. International case studies will be used to explore the political, economic, socio-cultural and environmental influences on health services. The role of the public, patients and carers in the planning, delivery and use of healthcare will be discussed with respect to need, supply, demand and choice. The formation of healthcare policy will be explored with respect to politics, power and use of evidence. The principles of healthcare quality and safety will be discussed with reference to clinical guidelines, clinical effectiveness, target setting, performance management, clinical governance and public health governance.
On completion of this unit, the student should be able to:
The unit will be taught at the University of Bristol over one teaching block. There will be 25 contact hours split between lectures (10 hours) and seminars (15 hours). Non-contact hours will comprise directed self-study including reading, accessing web-based supplementary materials, critical analysis and completion of the assessments (75 hours). Participants will learn from shared experience of health care systems within the group as well as from the lectures.
Student learning will be supported in lectures and practicals by the use of exercises, quizzes and feedback following group discussions.
Summative assessment of the unit will be through a 1,500 to 2000-word essay and a group assignment. The essay will require the student to demonstrate the application of knowledge developed across ILOs 1 – 5 (70% of unit mark). The group project will contribute 30% of the final unit mark. (ILOs 6-8).
A score of 50% will be required to pass the module. Assessments are weighted as above.
There are no set course texts for this unit.
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