About The Institute Of Healthcare Management (IHM)
The Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM) in the
United Kingdom is recognised as one of the most influential
healthcare management organisations in the world. The
IHM’s membership reflects the diversity of healthcare
management from within primary and acute care as well as
from the public and private sectors.
Since 1902, the IHM has played an important part in the
lives of thousands of healthcare managers. It provides
opportunities to enhance the careers of those involved in the
health and care sectors through professional development
opportunities, robust and effective networks and influencing
relevant policy decisions.
When you register for the Professional Diploma or
Professional Certificate programme you receive membership
of the IHM for one year. Membership is a recognition of
your commitment to the IHM’s standards and its Healthcare
Management Code. It gives the individual membership of
an international community of professional health and social
care managers who are committed to improvement and
excellence in healthcare.
By successfully completing either the Professional Certificate
or Professional Diploma programme you will be gaining
an internationally recognised professional managerial
qualification, entitling you to become a full member of the
IHM and to use the designatory letters ‘MIHM’ after your
name.
What Will You Learn From This Programme?
The IHM’s Professional Certificate and Professional Diploma
programmes are among the most advanced, practical, evidencebased
healthcare management qualifications presently available
anywhere in the world. They recognise healthcare managers
who are achieving the very highest standards of healthcare
management practice and professional development – setting high
standards for themselves, their organisations and their teams.
- Managing Your Healthcare Enterprise – reviews the forces
for change affecting your healthcare organisation: such as the
cultural, socio-demographic and political contexts within which
the organisation functions and within which planned change as
the core management activity has to operate.
- Managing Healthcare Finance – introduces fundamental
concepts needed for effective financial management in
healthcare with a focus on costing and budgetary management
to enhance organisational performance and accountability.
- Leadership Effectiveness For Healthcare Managers – starts by
considering what leadership effectiveness is and then considers
how both personal and team effectiveness can be enhanced. It
explores working with groups and teams in the wider context
and frameworks for assisting personal and team effectiveness
including issues concerning the future workforce.
- Strategic Business And Service Planning In Healthcare –
focuses on systematic business planning as a rigorous approach
to planned change. It brings together and integrates the other
modules.
- Managing Information And Communications In Healthcare – reviews the importance of information and communication
management in the delivery of services.
- Managing Health Service Delivery – covers approaches to
designing healthcare service delivery systems in a quality context
including adopting a project management approach.