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Course content
This course has been designed to equip you with the practical skills and theoretical understanding needed to manage the health and social care system within your organisation.
The course aims to enable you to:
understand the TOC approach to ongoing improvement in the context of health and social care
critically evaluate and integrate the TOC approach with other related developments
use reflective thinking skills to continually develop your theoretical understanding
successfully undertake an improvement cycle that involves system analysis innovative design and team implementation
be able to assess and develop your personal managerial skills and values
Graduate employability
The demand for expertise in the field is growing rapidly worldwide. This course enables graduates to enhance their career prospects within health and social care systems, as well as within a wide range of manufacturing and service organisations.
How do you study?
This MSc is delivered part-time over a period of 18 months, encompassing seven application based modules taught in five-day blocks.
Professional development
The TOC is a respected approach to organisational improvement worldwide and practical expertise in its use is actively sought by a wide range of manufacturing and service organisations.
This course has specific relevance to health and social care systems and the demand for such expertise is rapidly growing in the UK and increasingly worldwide.
Professional recognition
Nottingham Business School is one of the UK’s leading full service business schools, providing a wide range of Business and Management education services for individuals and organisations. The School’s reputation within the international and global business world continues to go from strength to strength as a result of its consistent performance in terms of accreditation, student performance and research, and its impressive client base.
Resources and facilities
Nottingham Business School’s professional approach to management education is supported by a suite of state-of-the-art teaching rooms and the latest in communication and information technology. The School provides a high quality management learning environment, designed to encourage creative thinking about real world issues confronting managers and their organisations.

Entry requirements
Applicants should posses a degree, or the ability to demonstrate appropriate critical evaluation skills, have at least 4 years’ relevant experience and the capacity to undertake a suitable work-based project.
Typically, applicants will have management responsibility for some aspect of the delivery system or improvement process in primary care trusts, acute hospitals or social care services.
About the course
This course has been specifically designed to develop internal leaders who are capable of successfully delivering a breakthrough in their own health and social care system. The theory of constraints (TOC) is increasingly acknowledged for its ability to deliver a breakthrough in performance across the health and social care environment. There are now many case studies demonstrating its success in large teaching hospitals, district general hospitals, community hospitals, mental health facilities and across the whole health and social care system. The key to its successful implementation is the development of internal capability and understanding of TOC.
Accreditation
The course is co-sponsored by Dr Eli Goldratt and QFI consulting who are the leading providers of the Theory of Constraints in health care across the world.
Assessment
Assessment will largely be via submitted coursework and presentations, the major piece being the work-based project. The assessment methods used are designed to reflect the work environment and encourage the integration of theory and practice.
The group consultancy project will assess your ability to apply what you have learnt to a health care organisation and your ability to work as part of a team.
The work-based project is designed to assess your ability to creatively apply the tools in the analysis and design as well as practically implement the improvement in an operational environment.

The course is modular and includes the following modules:
Concepts of Health and Healing
Public Health, Sustainability and Community
Critical Public Health
Multidisciplinary Public Health Policy and Practice
Principles of Research Design
International Politics of Health
Dissertation.
Assessment
The course employs a varied assessment regime, which includes essays, reports, portfolio and presentations. The dissertation gives you the opportunity to design, implement and present a significant piece of research relevant topic of your choice.
Resources and facilities
Our staff and teaching facilities are located on the University’s city site in the heart of Nottingham, ensuring they are readily accessible to all. Students are supported by a full range of learning resources, from a £13 million library and education resource centre - where 24-hour IT access is available - to our comprehensive Student Support Services and International Development Office.
Study routes
This course can be studied either one year full-time or two years part-time. It is delivered through lectures, workshops, group work and one to one supervision. Students receive support throughout their studies from committed and enthusiastic teaching staff, who are also involved in research activity.
Opportunities
The course cultivates intellectual and research skills, experience and knowledge suitable for effective practice in a wide range of multidisciplinary public health sectors. You will be equipped to progress into policy, research and practice roles in the public, private or voluntary arenas in the UK or internationally. For those already employed it provides transferable skills such as independent critical thought, analysis and evaluation, partnership working skills and self directed learning.

Graduates of this Masters course will be enthused about the potential to act as change agents within multi-disciplinary public health settings; bring an extensive knowledge of public health with a critical awareness of the philosophical, theoretical and methodological issues to bear on the discipline; and adopt an independent and reflective approach to their learning and future careers.
Entry requirements
Normally applicants will possess a good Honours degree in a closely related discipline.
Applicants whose first language is not English require IELTS 6.5 (minimum 6.0 in reading and writing), paper-based TOEFL 560 (to include TWE 5).
About the course
This innovative new Masters course has been designed in response to contemporary debates about the changing nature and shifting boundaries of multidisciplinary public health. The programme provides the opportunity to engage with a wide and diverse curricula including sustainable development, social determinants of health, politics, ethics and international public health. It is suitable for recently qualified graduates or those already in employment.
Modules are also available to be taken as part of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

About the course
This is a post-qualifying course in Childcare Practice for qualified social workers and other childcare professionals with related qualifications; the whole course is worth 120 academic credits. At the end of the course participants will gain the Specialist Award in Childcare Practice (professional award) and either the BA (Hons) in Childcare Practice or the Postgraduate Diploma in Childcare Practice, depending on academic level of entry.
Assessment
Written assignments, case studies, exams, presentations and observations of practice
Resources and facilities
The initial Consolidation Module will be taught jointly by Nottingham Trent University and agency staff. Modules Two - Six are taught by staff from the social work division at Nottingham Trent University.
Students have access to the full range of University facilities, including the library.
Study routes
We have introduced an innovative new style of teaching for 2009 which combines the delivery of the Consolidation Module into one five-day programme between Monday March 30 and Friday 3 April 2009. You will then complete two assignments in the following six-week period and undertake a portfolio and observed practice by mid-June.
You can take the Consolidation Module as a stand-alone award or go on to complete the rest of the qualification in Modules Two to Six. The rest of the course is studied part-time, one day a week over a calendar year. Applicants can apply for either the BA (Hons) or Postgraduate Diploma depending on their previous level of qualification.

About the course
This is a post-qualifying course in Child Care Practice for qualified social workers and other child care professionals with related qualifications; the whole course is worth 120 academic credits. At the end of the course participants will gain the Specialist Award in Post Qualifying Child Care Practice (professional award) and either the BA (Hons) in Child Care Practice or the Postgraduate Diploma in Child Care Practice, depending on academic level of entry.
Assessment
Written assignments, case studies, exams, presentations and observations of practice
Resources and facilities
Module One will be taught jointly by Nottingham Trent University and agency staff in the candidates’ own agency premises. Modules Two - Six are taught by staff from the social work division at Nottingham Trent University.
Students have access to the full range of University facilities, including the library.
Study routes
The course is part-time, one day a week over a calendar year. Applicants can apply for either the BA (Hons) or Postgraduate Diploma depending on their previous level of qualification.
Professional development
This is both an academic and a professional course. Students are expected to undertake assessed practice, which usually takes place in their own work-place.

The course is modular and includes the following modules:
Concepts of Health and Healing
Public Health, Sustainability and Community
Critical Public Health
Multidisciplinary Public Health Policy and Practice
Principles of Research Design
International Politics of Health
Dissertation.
Assessment
The course employs a varied assessment regime, which includes essays, reports, portfolio and presentations. The dissertation gives you the opportunity to design, implement and present a significant piece of research relevant topic of your choice.
Resources and facilities
Our staff and teaching facilities are located on the University’s city site in the heart of Nottingham, ensuring they are readily accessible to all. Students are supported by a full range of learning resources, from a £13 million library and education resource centre - where 24-hour IT access is available - to our comprehensive Sudent Support Services and International Development Office.
Study routes
This course can be studied either one year full-time or two years part-time. It is delivered through lectures, workshops, group work and one to one supervision. Students receive support throughout their studies from committed and enthusiastic teaching staff, who are also involved in research activity.
Opportunities
The course cultivates intellectual and research skills, experience and knowledge suitable for effective practice in a wide range of multidisciplinary public health sectors. You will be equipped to progress into policy, research and practice roles in the public, private or voluntary arenas in the UK or internationally. For those already employed it provides transferable skills such as independent critical thought, analysis and evaluation, partnership working skills and self directed learning.

Graduates of this Masters course will be enthused about the potential to act as change agents within multi-disciplinary public health settings; bring an extensive knowledge of public health with a critical awareness of the philosophical, theoretical and methodological issues to bear on the discipline; and adopt an independent and reflective approach to their learning and future careers.
Entry requirements
Normally applicants will possess a good Honours degree in a closely related discipline.
Applicants whose first language is not English require IELTS 6.5 (minimum 6.0 in reading and writing), paper-based TOEFL 560 (to include TWE 5).
About the course
This innovative new Masters course has been designed in response to contemporary debates about the changing nature and shifting boundaries of multidisciplinary public health. The programme provides the opportunity to engage with a wide and diverse curricula including sustainable development, social determinants of health, politics, ethics and international public health. It is suitable for recently qualified graduates or those already in employment.
Modules are also available to be taken as part of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

Entry requirements
Professional qualification (CQSW, DipSw or similar)
First degree for applicants undertaking the postgraduate certificate.
About the course
This is a post-qualifying course in Childcare Practice for qualified social workers and other childcare professionals with related qualifications; the whole course is worth 120 academic credits. At the end of the course participants will gain the Specialist Award in Childcare Practice (professional award) and either the BA (Hons) in Childcare Practice or the Postgraduate Diploma in Childcare Practice, depending on academic level of entry.
Assessment
Written assignments, case studies, exams, presentations and observations of practice
Resources and facilities
The initial Consolidation Module will be taught jointly by Nottingham Trent University and agency staff. Modules Two - Six are taught by staff from the social work division at Nottingham Trent University.
Students have access to the full range of University facilities, including the library.
Study routes
We have introduced an innovative new style of teaching for 2009 which combines the delivery of the Consolidation Module into one five-day programme between Monday March 30 and Friday 3 April 2009. You will then complete two assignments in the following six-week period and undertake a portfolio and observed practice by mid-June.
You can take the Consolidation Module as a stand-alone award or go on to complete the rest of the qualification in Modules Two to Six. The rest of the course is studied part-time, one day a week over a calendar year. Applicants can apply for either the BA (Hons) or Postgraduate Diploma depending on their previous level of qualification.
Professional development
This is both an academic and a professional course. Students are expected to undertake assessed practice, which usually takes place in their own work-place.

The LLM programmes consist of the following two common modules.
Legal research and writing: This module is designed to develop the special legal research and writing skills that students will need to complete the assessments. It provides an opportunity to examine research methodologies, academic writing and library and information skills.
Dissertation: The Law School provides a supportive environment for students to carry out a major but focussed individual research project. Students wishing to achieve a Masters degree are required to submit a dissertation of 18,000 to 20,000 words on a suitable topic of their choice.
The curriculum includes a compulsory introduction to Health Law with students selecting seven optional modules depending on their areas of interest.
How do you study?
A range of teaching and learning methods will be employed as appropriate to each module with the aim of enhancing contextualised skills of research and writing. The methods employed include lectures, seminars and workshops. The seminars allow you to examine topics in-depth through the discussion of papers presented during seminars. Although the primary focus is on individual independent study you may have an opportunity to work in groups within seminars.
Assessment
With the exception of the dissertation and the Legal Research and Writing module, which is assessed by the submission of a research proposal, the modules for the LLM programmes are assessed by means of a 4,000 word piece of work. These could be discursive essays, reports, case studies or problem scenarios.