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Qualifications and durations
- MSc/Postgraduate Diploma/Certificate/CPD 1 to 5 years
Overview
Healthcare Information Governance was commissioned by NHS Education for Scotland.
The only postgraduate course of its kind in the UK that is specifically about information governance for healthcare professionals, the programme provides a comprehensive, innovative, practitionerbased approach to understanding issues around information governance in health and social care.
The programme aims to equip health and social care professionals with the knowledge and practical skills essential for developing and implementing the Information Governance Agenda in the NHS, enabling them to:
- interpret information governance legislation and guidance
- implement information governance at a strategic and operational level
- improve the information governance, information management and knowledge management arrangements and practices at an organisational level.
Designed to support the working commitments of healthcare practitioners, from clinical to managerial roles, this distance learning programme blends innovative e-learning with face to face teaching. Reflective, practice-based elements provide relevance and application and online ‘virtual workshops’ build communities of practice through student-student and student-mentor interaction. Students are supported throughout by expert tutors and mentors.
Academic entry requirements
Students will be expected to hold a good first degree in a relevant subject area, or an equivalent professional qualification together with a normal minimum of two years relevant experience. A special CPD admissions route is available for candidates with experience but no formal qualifications.
English requirements
IELTS 6.5 overall (with not less than 6.0 in each of the four components).
TOEFL 580 (paper-based test) or 237 (computer-based test) with a score of not less than 4 in the TWE or 92 (internet-based test) with not less than 21 in each of the components.
Candidates whose first language is not English and who do not have formal qualifications in English, may be considered for entry on to the programme if their first degree was obtained at an English-speaking university or if the candidate has been working for a number of years in an English-speaking organisation.
Contact
Enquiries and Admissions Assistant
Email hig@bath.ac.uk
Tel +44 (0) 1225 385230
Fax +44 (0) 1225 383833
Web www.bath.ac.uk/health/hig
Fees in 2008-9
See Graduate Office website.