Leadership in Healthcare

Lead teams and change in a setting where mistakes cost dearly.

What the course covers

8 modules, 32 topics. Open any one to see what sits inside it.

1. 1.1 What makes healthcare leadership different
2. 1.2 Clinical authority and managerial authority
3. 1.3 Leading without formal power
4. 1.4 Your own style under pressure
1. 2.1 Multi-professional team dynamics
2. 2.2 Hierarchy, and when it kills people
3. 2.3 Building psychological safety
4. 2.4 Supporting a colleague who is struggling
1. 3.1 Rotas, workload and fairness
2. 3.2 Feedback and difficult conversations
3. 3.3 Performance and conduct concerns
4. 3.4 Recruitment, retention and burnout
1. 4.1 Capacity, demand and flow
2. 4.2 Managing a budget in a clinical service
3. 4.3 Prioritising when the resource is not enough
4. 4.4 Escalation and surge
1. 5.1 Why clinical change gets resisted
2. 5.2 Engaging clinicians rather than announcing at them
3. 5.3 Pilots, spread and sustainability
4. 5.4 Communicating change honestly
1. 6.1 Clinical governance
2. 6.2 Responding to a serious incident as a leader
3. 6.3 Speaking up, and being spoken up to
4. 6.4 Boards, regulators and assurance
1. 7.1 Partnership between organisations
2. 7.2 Commissioning and contracts in outline
3. 7.3 Working with patients and communities
4. 7.4 Influencing beyond your own service
1. 8.1 Ethical decisions when resources are scarce
2. 8.2 Compassionate leadership
3. 8.3 Developing the next generation
4. 8.4 Resilience without martyrdom

By the end of this course you will be able to explain and apply:

Two hours, not two months Eight short modules. Finish in a day, or do one module a night for a week.

Depth beyond your coursework Pitched above taught content, for research, leadership and the work that follows the degree.

Built for a phone Watch on the bus, pause mid-module, pick up where you stopped. No download, no lab.

A certificate that can be checked Every certificate carries an ID your college or an employer can verify on our site.

About two hours in total — eight modules of roughly fifteen minutes. You can do it in one sitting or spread it across a week. Your place is saved either way.
No. There is no prerequisite course and no software to install. A phone, tablet or computer with an internet connection is enough.
Yes. This course is placed at Master's Degree for India, and the content is written for that level. If you are at a different stage, change your level at the top of the page and the courses will change with it.
A certificate for the course, carrying an ID that your college or an employer can check on our verification page. You keep access to the material afterwards.
Yes — ₹450 for this course on its own, or ₹1,450 for all five in this set, which works out cheaper if you want more than one.
There is a short quiz at the end of each module so you can check what stuck. It is not timed and you can retake it.
Change your country using the picker at the top. Level names, degree names and prices all switch to that country, and the courses adjust to its education system.

Wording shown for India. Pick a different country at the top and the terms, currency and programme names change with it.