Master of Quality Services (Health and Safety) (H7Q)

The School of Health Sciences aims to create an educational environment which values critical, reflective thinking, life-long learning, acquisition of generic attributes and professional development.

The course provides students with an opportunity to advance knowledge and skills, to act as leaders in critical analysis, development, implementation and evaluation required for quality service redesign. The Master of Quality Services (Health and Safety) course objectives are to:

• develop students' advanced body of knowledge in the  development and implementation of quality service management policy;
• equip students to design, implement and evaluate workplace change leading to a strengthened quality culture;
• provide an opportunity to gain a theoretical and practical appreciation of various health care systems;
• facilitate students' understanding of the strategic management of health care organisations;
• develop students' knowledge of the epidemiological issues of health care organisations;
• facilitate specialised understanding of existing health service models;
• apply best practice models for quality service design;
• extend students' knowledge, to critically review and communicate key information in relation to  theoretical models and frameworks of quality evaluation;
• interpret workplace culture and its impact on quality service delivery;
• apply established theories to enhance factors that facilitate quality culture in the workplace;
• empower students to act to address barriers to the development of a quality culture in the workplace; and
• apply knowledge of monitoring and measuring performance within a quality framework.