This MSc Programme will provide the opportunity to explore and understand ethical challenges of healthcare delivery in a global context.

Its unique design focuses on bioethical issues as they appear in practice and goes beyond it by exploring how different cultures and healthcare systems tackle these problems. At the same time, the programme provides a greater understanding of socio-cultural and economic aspects of healthcare at a global level.

‘Global Healthcare Ethics’ has a very personalised/flexible design with a core of applied clinical ethics and additional options. In order to accommodate different professional and personal needs, the programme has a flexible blended learning structure that gives students the opportunity to engage with ethicists and health professionals and to share their experiences and ethical dilemmas.

This programme is unique in that it will apply ethical principles to everyday practice and will explore the moral problems encountered by health care professionals across a range of clinical scenarios, e.g.: reproductive technology, genetics, mental health, children in research, health records and ethics of patient’s data, and end of life care. Another unique point is its delivery in an international environment where students from across the world share their experiences and best practice.

Students will refer to examples connected with clinical practice (from their area of work both in the UK and overseas): ethical dilemmas in connection with patient expectations, difficult clinical decisions, the ethics of new biomedical technology, communication technology and e-health etc.

This programme will be taught by a wide range of clinicians and research experts across health and key clinical research programmes within the University of Liverpool and the wider hospital communities.