Personal Professional Development (Public Health and Primary Care)

Fees for entry in 2027 have not yet been set. For reference, the fees for the academic year beginning September 2026 were as follows:

• Modular (part-time distance learning)
  UK students (per annum): £1,200 per 15 credits
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £2,600 per 15 credits

Fees quoted above are fully inclusive of tuition, administration and computational costs.

Always contact the admissions team if you are unsure which fee applies to your qualification award and method of attendance. For general fees information please visit postgraduate fees .

The course fees include all the tuition, technical support and assessments required for the course, but you are likely to incur some additional costs:

• maximum of one core text book per unit (approximately £30 per book) where e-books are not available;
• communication costs for internet use and telephone;
• a statistical software package (approximately £20).

A copy of the statistical software for Practical Statistics for Population Health will be provided free for all international fee-paying students.

Costs may also be incurred for travel, subsistence and accommodation charges during the following optional events or units:

• the Arts and Public Health blended learning unit
• the Intercultural Public Health blended learning unit
• the Infection, Prevention & Control blended learning unit
• the Engaging the Hard to Reach for Health Gain blended learning unit

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

This online course introduces approaches to implementing evidence-based interventions, programmes and policy in real-world health and social care settings both locally and globally to improve uptake and health outcomes. 
 

The aim of the course unit is to provide an introduction to implementation and improvement sciences for health and social care, from a local to a global context for the improvement of health and wellbeing.

Category of outcome	Student will be able to:
Knowledge and understanding	A1 Demonstrate an understanding of systems thinking and behaviour approaches in the implementation of evidence-based innovations, at individual, group and organisational levels in health and social care
Intellectual skills	B1 Identify and address barriers and facilitators to the uptake of evidence-based health innovations in local and global settings B2 Analyse interventions, programmes and policies and their impact on health and social care B3 Demonstrate an understanding of how to assess and implement new innovations into practice in health and social care B4 Evaluate research findings into different context and settings
Practical skills	C1 Apply implementation strategies into practice to overcome barriers and increase uptake of evidence-based interventions in local and global settings
Transferable skills and personal qualities	D1 Manage time and work to deadlines. D2 Develop a critical approach to implementing and applying evidence-based innovations into practice

The majority of the course will be through elearning which will include required and additional learning, self-tests and discussion boards. There will be a minimum of 2 webinars that will be recorded to allow synchronous and asynchronous learning.

All materials are online and require the students to work through teaching on the virtual learning platform including self-tests, discussion board activities and quizzes. 
 

Students will be provided with personalised feedback for their final summative assignment (2,500 words) within 20 working days.
 

Core text: How to implement evidence-based healthcare (Trisha Greenhalgh)