Overview

This master’s in Health and Social Care Policy at King's College London is jointly delivered by the School for Government and the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, which means you’ll get a rigorous education in how to think about policy across healthcare, social care and public health in a joined-up and integrated way.You’ll graduate with a variety of knowledge and skills that will be invaluable in your future careers, including the ability to critique health and social care policy using evidence-based approaches and to propose solutions to existing challenges. You’ll also demonstrate your advanced research skills by producing a dissertation.

Key benefits

• Gain an understanding of the policy-making process relating to health and social care, the global approaches to health and social care, and the intersection between national and local government in the delivery of these policies.
• Develop your technical policy-making skills, including policy analysis and evaluation, and learn how to apply behavioural sciences to health and social care policy.
• Learn how to evaluate technological and political changes relevant to health and social care policy and how to contribute to current research, advanced scholarship, and policy debates on these issues.
• Build transferrable skills that are highly desired by employers, including the ability to critique evidence, apply practical policy-making skills and think in an interdisciplinary way across the fields of health and social care policy.