Quality and Safety in Healthcare

Overview

On completion of the Quality and Safety in Healthcare programme from the Atlantic Technological University, students will have developed enhanced contextual, cultural and professional insights into quality, safety and governance.

Graduates will be equipped with a set of skills that will have a direct impact in the safe delivery of health and social care.

Programme Structure:

This programme is a Master of Science in Health and Social Care leading to the exit award of either MSc Quality and Safety in Healthcare or MSc Quality and Safety in Social Care. 

The exit award will depend on the student’s area of professional practice.

The programme is designed around five key themes:

• Towards a new understanding of quality care in contemporary health and social care.

• Improving service user safety

• Enhancing the care experience of service users

• Developing a systematic approach to quality improvement methodology

• Leadership and management as quality improvement drivers in health and social care

Job Opportunities

This programme offers an invaluable opportunity for eligible graduates to benefit from enhanced level of competencies which will instruct excellence in quality and safety in health and social care.

Graduates will particularly benefit in pursuing a career path in quality management, compliance, general management and person safety roles.

These roles vary across the emerging spectrum of health and social care.

Graduates will advance their career prospects in terms of promotion eligibility and post-graduate training.

This may be in management and or specialist areas such as clinical risk or quality improvement within the health and social care environment.