Sustainability, Stewardship and Finance

For key module dates, view the 2023-24 Module Calendar (.docx)

Are you currently working, or aspire to work, in a health or social care setting in a leadership position?  This module aims to allow leaders to adopt an interprofessional approach to the management of health and care resources through improvement of operations and collaboration that will cultivate the mindset within their system to create lasting change.  It should enable you to create a culture of stewardship where collective responsibility for the common resources is prioritised.  It will also help you to manage operations in a sustainable way that helps deliver the triple aim identified in the DHSC White Paper 2021.  By the end of the module, you'll be equipped to differentiate between healthcare populations & demand through intelligent population healthcare management.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this module, you will be expected to be able to:

1. Demonstrate a systematic understanding of how the national health & care directive can be interpreted at a local level to reconfigure pathways & services into sustainable services
2. Develop a systematic understanding and a critical awareness of differences between health systems and healthcare systems
3. Demonstrate a conceptual understanding of the connections between business and social responsibility
4. Determine a critical awareness of the effect that operations can have on the sustainability of an organization
5. Develop the critical tools and moral imagination required to analyse and manage current and future social, ethical and environmental challenges
6. To identify a comprehensive understanding of techniques to navigate health and care financial and governance structures

Our expert staff

This module is taught by Tracey Williams-Macklin who is an Occupational Therapist, who was a Clinical Leader in the NHS for 20 years.

Module Outline

The module includes the following content:

• Health system ‘v’ healthcare systems
• Sustainable health systems: workforce planning
• Interdependent socio-ecological drivers. Defining the complex relationships
• Financial health: stewardship
• Critical tools to analyse health
• Developing a team mindset & systems-based approach to the design of health systems
• Navigating the challenges of the present health system

Assessment strategy

• The assessment for this course is by coursework only.

Our CPD Funding page has more information on fees for our modules and potential funding sources.

We have guidance on making your application and the forms to download on our how to apply page.