C04246v1 Master of Health

Services Management and

Planning
Award(s): Master of Health Services Management and Planning
(MHSMPlan)
UAC code: 940811 (Autumn session, Spring session)
CRICOS code: 071627K
Commonwealth supported place?: No
Load credit points: 96
Course EFTSL: 2
Location: City campus

Notes
This course offers a mid-year intake for local and international students.
Overview
Course aims
Course intended learning outcomes
Career options
Admission requirements
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Course program
Professional recognition
Other information

Overview
This is a comprehensive course in health services planning and
management and aims to expand students' knowledge and future career
opportunities. The course develops students' knowledge and skills, which
leads to an enhanced capacity to plan and manage health services in a
diverse range of health settings.
Graduates of this course are exposed to academic and industry leaders
who share their experience and knowledge to facilitate insight into the
contemporary health service management environment.

Course aims
This course is designed to prepare new, aspiring, and middle health
service planners and managers to assume a leadership role in the
strategic and operational management of a wide range of health services
and facilities. The content aims to develop skills in planning and
evaluating health services, understanding health needs, and managing
people, resources, systems and processes within health services to meet
the changing needs of communities, clinicians, governments and
organisations.

Course intended learning outcomes

1.
0

Reflective, critical thinker who influences practice, policy and

research to achieve clinical excellence and transform healthcare
services.

1.
1

Critique, interpret and synthesise data and research findings to

develop safe, effective and evidence-based solutions to healthcare
challenges.

1.
2

Propose relevant problem solving and human factors theories to the

analysis of common issues inherent in the management and
evaluation of healthcare services .

1.
3

Initiate and explain change management methodologies appropriate

to improving healthcare outcomes.

2.
0

Effective, collaborative and responsive leader who considers health

care in a global context.

2.
1

Justify and demonstrate appropriate leadership styles and skkills

necessary to manage, evaluate and innovate healthcare services
utilising contemporary local, national and international perspectives.

2.
2

Develop and contribute to research and quality improvement

activities in order to maintain knowledge currency and influence
healthcare practice and policy.

3.
0

Socially, culturally and ethically accountable when engaging with

individuals, families, interdisciplinary teams, communities,
organisations and jurisdictions.

3.
1

Create and lead social and ethical accountability to enable efficient

use of resources and equity of access to optimal and safe health
care.

3.

Validate the importance of integrating stakeholder partnerships in all

healthcare decision making activities.

4.
0

Communicates effectively and appropriately in challenging, complex

and diverse situations.

4.
1

Value and choose highly effective and sensitive communication with

diverse populations to enable positive and sustainable change in
healthcare practice, policy, and research.

4.
2

Determine and recommend modes of communication necessary to

optimise outcomes across differing audiences, purposes and
contexts within healthcare practice.

5.
0

Professional cultural competency which contributes to the health and

well being of Indigenous Australians, inclusive of physical, social,
emotional and spiritual wellness.

5.
1

Demonstrate respect and value for world view differences and in

particular Australian Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing.

5.
2

Critically reflect upon the impact of ongoing colonisation and its

pervasive discourse on Indigenous Australians and their health and
wellbeing.

5.
3

Recognise the diversity of Indigenous Australians and integrate this

knowledge into practice.

Career options
Career options include positions as managers and/or planners in health
authorities, hospitals, primary and community care, aged care services
and other healthcare facilities in the public, private, not-for-profit,
government and non-government health sectors.

Admission requirements
Applicants must have completed a UTS recognised bachelor's degree, or
an equivalent or higher qualification, or submitted other evidence of
general and professional qualifications that demonstrates potential to
pursue graduate studies.
This evidence may include extensive relevant work experience in a
healthcare or human services field.
Applicants must have at least one year's full-time equivalent experience in
a healthcare or human services organisation.

Applicants who do not have an undergraduate degree but who have

extensive relevant work experience in a healthcare or human services
field and can demonstrate the capacity to undertake tertiary study may
also be considered eligible.
The English proficiency requirement for international students or local
applicants with international qualifications is: Academic IELTS: 6.5 overall
with a writing score of 6.0; or TOEFL: paper based: 550-583 overall
with TWE of 4.5, internet based: 79-93 overall with a writing score of 21;
or AE5: Pass; or PTE: 58-64; or CAE: 176-184.
Eligibility for admission does not guarantee offer of a place.

International students
Visa requirement: To obtain a student visa to study in Australia,
international students must enrol full time and on campus. Australian
student visa regulations also require international students studying on
student visas to complete the course within the standard full-time
duration. Students can extend their courses only in exceptional
circumstances.

Course duration and attendance

The course duration is two years of full-time or four years of part-time
study.
Subjects are offered via on-campus study. Part-time students usually study
two subjects a session and full-time students usually study four subjects a
session.

Course structure
Students must complete a total of 96 credit points, comprising 14 core
subjects offered by UTS: Health and UTS: Business, and two electives.
Students who wish to undertake an elective that is not listed should seek
advice from UTS: Health.

Course completion requirements

CBK90397 Electives

12c
p

STM90535 Core subjects (Health Services Management and

Planning)

66c
p

STM90713 Core subjects (HSM)

18c

p
96c
p

Total

Course program
Example programs are shown below.
Autumn commencing, full time
Year 1
Autumn session
92887 Organisational Management in Health Care

6cp

92603 Managing Quality, Risk and Cost in Health Care

6cp

92638 Foundations of the Australian Healthcare System

6cp

92917 Using Health Care Data for Decision Making

6cp

Spring session
21720 Human Resource Management

6cp

92296 Epidemiology and Population Health

6cp

92050 Policy, Power and Politics in Health Care

6cp

92790 Evidence-based Practice

6cp

Year 2
Autumn session
92297 Health Systems and Change

6cp

26703 Introductory Health Economics

6cp

92847 Planning and Evaluating Health Services

6cp

Select 6 credit points from the following:

6cp

CBK90397 Electives

12cp

Spring session
15315 Project Management Principles

6cp

23787 Health Technology Assessment

6cp

92295 Advanced Health Services Planning

6cp

Select 6 credit points from the following:

6cp

CBK90397 Electives

12cp

Spring commencing, full time

Year 1
Spring session
92917 Using Health Care Data for Decision Making

6cp

92603 Managing Quality, Risk and Cost in Health Care

6cp

92887 Organisational Management in Health Care

6cp

92638 Foundations of the Australian Healthcare System

6cp

Year 2
Autumn session
92296 Epidemiology and Population Health

6cp

92847 Planning and Evaluating Health Services

6cp

92050 Policy, Power and Politics in Health Care

6cp

92790 Evidence-based Practice

6cp

Spring session
21720 Human Resource Management

6cp

23787 Health Technology Assessment

6cp

92295 Advanced Health Services Planning

6cp

Select 6 credit points from the following:

6cp

CBK90397 Electives

12cp

Year 3
Autumn session
92297 Health Systems and Change

6cp

26703 Introductory Health Economics

6cp

15315 Project Management Principles

6cp

Select 6 credit points from the following:

CBK90397 Electives

6cp
12cp

Autumn commencing, part time

Year 1
Autumn session
92638 Foundations of the Australian Healthcare System

6cp

92917 Using Health Care Data for Decision Making

6cp

Spring session
92603 Managing Quality, Risk and Cost in Health Care

6cp

92887 Organisational Management in Health Care

6cp

Year 2
Autumn session
92296 Epidemiology and Population Health

6cp

92050 Policy, Power and Politics in Health Care

6cp

Spring session
21720 Human Resource Management

6cp

92790 Evidence-based Practice

6cp

Year 3
Autumn session
92297 Health Systems and Change

6cp

92847 Planning and Evaluating Health Services

6cp

Spring session
92295 Advanced Health Services Planning

6cp

Select 6 credit points from the following:

6cp

CBK90397 Electives

12cp

Year 4
Autumn session
26703 Introductory Health Economics

6cp

Select 6 credit points from the following:

CBK90397 Electives

6cp
12cp

Spring session
15315 Project Management Principles

6cp

23787 Health Technology Assessment

6cp

Spring commencing, part time

Year 1
Spring session
92638 Foundations of the Australian Healthcare System

6cp

92917 Using Health Care Data for Decision Making

6cp

Year 2
Autumn session
92887 Organisational Management in Health Care

6cp

92603 Managing Quality, Risk and Cost in Health Care

6cp

Spring session
92296 Epidemiology and Population Health

6cp

92050 Policy, Power and Politics in Health Care

6cp

Year 3
Autumn session
92297 Health Systems and Change

6cp

92847 Planning and Evaluating Health Services

6cp

Spring session
21720 Human Resource Management

6cp

92295 Advanced Health Services Planning

6cp

Year 4
Autumn session
26703 Introductory Health Economics

6cp

92790 Evidence-based Practice

6cp

Spring session
23787 Health Technology Assessment

6cp

Select 6 credit points from the following:

6cp

CBK90397 Electives

12cp

Year 5
Autumn session
15315 Project Management Principles

6cp

Select 6 credit points from the following:

6cp

CBK90397 Electives

Professional recognition
Australasian College of Health Service Management (ACHSM)

Other information
Further information is available from:
UTS Student Centre
telephone 1300 ask UTS (1300 275 887)
or +61 2 9514 1222
Ask UTS
UTS: Health
Associate Professor Jo Travaglia
Course coordinator

12cp