At Worcester, you’ll apply your learning directly to your healthcare setting, build consulting skills and develop as a leader, whilst being supported by our team of experts in healthcare and business. But crucially, you’ll also learn from each other's experiences by engaging in class debates and build your professional network.
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Overview
The Healthcare Leadership Executive MBA is a career-focused programme designed for experienced professionals in mid to senior-level healthcare roles who want to deepen their understanding of leadership and management in a fast-changing, complex sector. This course integrates advanced business disciplines such as finance, strategy, and operations, with healthcare leadership, preparing you to lead at the highest level.
Delivered in bite-sized blocks over weekends, the course focuses on real-world learning that you can apply directly to your organisation. You’ll explore key topics like sustainability, ethical leadership, digital transformation, and quality improvement, all through the lens of healthcare.
With a strong emphasis on responsible leadership, you’ll gain tools to manage change effectively and make a positive impact in your workplace. Teaching is grounded with case studies, simulations, and peer-led discussions, helping you develop practical consulting and problem-solving skills through a challenge-based approach. This includes a consultancy project with a third-party organisation.
This course is ideal for professionals with substantial healthcare experience who are ready to transition into strategic, executive-level roles and drive meaningful change locally and globally.
Course content
We regularly review our courses to reflect the latest research and developments in the subject area, as well as feedback from students, employers and the wider sector. As a result, modules may change to ensure the course remains current and relevant.
Careers
This Executive MBA is designed to help you take the next step in your healthcare leadership career. Designed for professionals with significant experience, the course gives you the practical tools and strategic insight to lead with confidence in complex healthcare environments.
You’ll develop a strong foundation in leadership, finance, innovation, and change management – skills that are essential for driving improvement and making informed decisions in healthcare settings. The challenge-based learning approach means you’ll apply what you learn directly to your own organisation, adding immediate value and strengthening your leadership impact.
Graduates of this programme are well-prepared for executive and strategic roles across the health, social care, and community sectors. Career paths include:
- NHS senior management and executive leadership
- Private healthcare operations and strategy roles
- Public health programme directors
- Adult social care leadership
- Executive roles such as Chief Operating Officer in healthcare organisations
Course highlights
Teaching and assessment
Teaching is delivered through interactive seminars, lectures, one-to-one tutorials, and practical sessions. You’ll learn by tackling real-world healthcare challenges, with assessments that mirror professional practice—such as consultancy reports, individual assignments, and group presentations.
Teaching and assessment contents
The programme is taught on campus, with teaching taking place on selected Fridays and Saturdays. Each module will have an associated pre-read/material, which will then be followed by the taught sessions that will leverage this pre-work to do meaningful work.
Typically, the taught sessions will include group discussions, interactive workshops, and case study analyses. Group discussions enable the development of understanding of topics that have been introduced as part of the pre-work. Interactive workshops take a variety of formats and are intended to enable the application of learning through small group activities. Case study analyses enable learners to apply theories, concepts and frameworks to real business situational challenges to bring content to life, to drive relevancy and engagement.
Outside of modules, you’ll be encouraged to set up discussion boards and interact with others in the cohort using the VLE.
Finally, our strong links with external events will create opportunities for you to build your professional and personal networks. In addition, you will have a minimum of two meetings with your Personal Academic Tutors, timed to coincide with key points, such as induction or assessment.
The University places emphasis on enabling students to develop the independent learning capabilities that will equip them for lifelong learning and future employment, as well as academic achievement. A mixture of independent study, teaching and academic support from Student Services and Library Services, and also the Personal Academic Tutoring system enables students to reflect on progress and build up a profile of skills, achievements and experiences that will help them to flourish and be successful.
Entry requirements
This programme is open to Chief Executives, Directors, Senior and Middle Managers, namely, those with leadership responsibility in healthcare setting and are ready to explore their capability in depth.
- The Executive MBA is appropriate for you if you have experience of senior management in either a commercial or public sector environment. You need not necessarily have had previous exposure to studies in business, leadership or management
- Applicants will normally have a first or second-class Honours Degree or equivalent in any subject and at least two years of business/management experience at a senior level
Any questions?
If you have any questions about entry requirements, please call our Admissions Office on 01905 855111 or email admissions@worc.ac.uk.
Fees
Fees contents
UK students
The standard tuition fee for part-time UK students enrolling in the academic year 2026/27 is £6,180 per year.
Tuition fees are reviewed annually and may increase each year for both new and continuing students.
For more details on course fees, please visit our course fees page.
How to apply
How to apply contents
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To express an interest in applying for this course, please contact the EMBA Team on EMBA@worc.ac.uk.
If you have any questions, please contact the Admissions office on 01905 855111 or admissions@worc.ac.uk.
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