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Health and Social Care Policy MSc
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The Masters in Health and Social Care Policy at King’s College London is for anyone interested in health and social care policy in a local, national, or global context. This is a unique degree programme, in that it involves a partnership between the International School for Government and the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, so blends cutting edge insights into the policymaking process with practical, real world experience of clinical settings. The masters draws on case studies from around the world to provide rigorous education in how to think about healthcare, social care, and public health in a joined up, integrated way. The programme is taught in parallel with a closed programme we teach for Officials in the UK Department for Health and Social Care, so studying on this course, you will be encouraged to bring your own experiences to bear, as well as learn from those of your cohort.
Key benefits
- Offer students with a comprehensive theoretical, conceptual and practical education in the policymaking process relating to social care and health policy.
- To support students to develop an understanding of global approaches to health and social care, alongside public and population health.
- To develop an understanding of the intersection between national and local government in the delivery of health and social care policy, as well as the role of the healthcare and social care providers, in the UK and overseas, drawing in global examples.
- To provide students with technical policymaking skills including policy analytics, understanding what works, and behavioural science as applied to health and social care.
- To provide students with an understanding of the principles and moral element of health and social care policy.
- To promote students’ initiative, originality, creativity and independence in identifying, researching, judging and solving problems at an advanced level.
- To provide students with the critical resources to evaluate technological and political changes relevant to health and social care policy, and to contribute to current research, advanced scholarship, and policy debates on these issues. This includes the intersection between health and social care and wider policy debates including climate change and artificial intelligence.
- To equip students with applied skills through assessment designed to reflect real world scenarios.
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Employability
Students completing the course will, leave the course better equipped with knowledge and skills that will be invaluable in their future careers. Critical skills and knowledge learned across the degree will include:
- An understanding of the role of evidence and empirical analysis in policymaking and how to build, understand and critique the evidence base around a particular policy area.
- Practical policymaking skills, including in the use of economics in health policy, behavioural science, evaluation sciences, and approach to policymaking.
- Knowledge and understanding of the history, present, and future of health and social care policy across international jurisdictions, learning from best practice across a wide range of contexts.
- Understanding of the relationship and interaction between local, regional, and national government and systems and other agencies in the delivery of health and social care.
- Critical knowledge of the current and potential structures of healthcare systems for delivery, including the use of public and private provision, as well as their equivalents in Social Care and of the economics of health and social care systems, and how they interact with wider social, economic, and political policy, and with developments in science and technology, digital change, and micro-macroeconomics.
- Understanding of the integration and lack thereof between health and social care policy.
- Critical thinking, statistical, and analytical skills that can be applied to contemporary policy challenges, and experience using these skills.
- Insight into a range of health and care systems in other countries and global health issues.
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Employability
Students completing the course will, leave the course better equipped with knowledge and skills that will be invaluable in their future careers. Critical skills and knowledge learned across the degree will include:
- An understanding of the role of evidence and empirical analysis in policymaking and how to build, understand and critique the evidence base around a particular policy area.
- Practical policymaking skills, including in the use of economics in health policy, behavioural science, evaluation sciences, and approach to policymaking.
- Knowledge and understanding of the history, present, and future of health and social care policy across international jurisdictions, learning from best practice across a wide range of contexts.
- Understanding of the relationship and interaction between local, regional, and national government and systems and other agencies in the delivery of health and social care.
- Critical knowledge of the current and potential structures of healthcare systems for delivery, including the use of public and private provision, as well as their equivalents in Social Care and of the economics of health and social care systems, and how they interact with wider social, economic, and political policy, and with developments in science and technology, digital change, and micro-macroeconomics.
- Understanding of the integration and lack thereof between health and social care policy.
- Critical thinking, statistical, and analytical skills that can be applied to contemporary policy challenges, and experience using these skills.
- Insight into a range of health and care systems in other countries and global health issues.