This course is suitable for professionals from clinical and non-clinical backgrounds, including those who have worked in medical and allied health professions, local government, non-governmental organizations, research institutions and consultancies and pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. The course also provides a foundation for MPhil or PhD-level study in Health Services Research. The Health Services Research offers advanced research training to enable graduates to conduct and evaluate research to understand and improve service delivery, quality of care and patient outcomes. This course will equip you with the research knowledge, skills and experience to consume and generate primary and secondary research which addresses these questions. This course explores the multifactorial causes of healthcare outcomes to develop and evaluate complex interventions and to improve services. The course will give you a thorough grounding in practical research and statistical skills enabling you to work in management, service provision and practice roles. Students will gain vital transferable skills which are applicable to all health and medical related careers where attention to detail, conducting research and evaluation for evidence based practice, and report writing is a career advantage. Graduates are also able to further their academic achievements by undertaking doctoral level study. During this course students will also achieve PgCert and PgDip awards.