Policy Influences on Your Practice

Course Overview

This module supports you in critically evaluating your own practice and understanding in relation to key policy drivers at global, national and local levels. You will explore how policy shapes healthcare delivery, influences decision making and impacts the experiences of practitioners, services and service users. Through advanced analysis and reflection, you will develop a deeper understanding of how policy informs your role and how you can respond to, influence and implement policy within your practice context.

This is a work-based learning module. Students will undertake learning within their employed place of work. Academic supervision is provided at the request of the student – up to 50 minutes per month for the duration of the module. Action learning sets are offered as one 90 minute session per month.

Why Choose This Course?

Programme Benefits

By the end of the module students should be able to:

  1. Critically discuss relevant global, national and local policy.
  2. Critically analyse policy currently influencing their practice.
  3. Critically evaluate the impact of policy change on their practice.
  4. Set and achieve one policy-related learning outcome that aligns with their personal development and future healthcare practice

This Course Is Designed For...

Individuals who are interested in the impact of policy on their practice.

This module is available to health or social care students on the MSc / PGDip / PGCert in Enhanced Professional Practice. It is also available to students who are interested in the impact of policy on their practice and may be accessed as a standalone module. Students are expected to select a policy relevant to their professional scope of practice and undertake a critical analysis of its purpose, practical application, and the global, national, and local factors influencing its development. The chosen policy may be newly proposed, currently under revision, or in the process of implementation.

Meet Your Lecturers

  • Ms SN Galletly
  • Miss AE Jones
  • Mrs E Williams

Entry Requirements

This module is available to health or social care students on the MSc / PGDip / PGCert in Enhanced Professional Practice. It is also available to students who are interested in the impact of policy on their practice and may be accessed as a standalone module.

How To Apply

Applications should be submitted online.