Diploma of Practice Management

About this qualification

HLT57715 is the qualification for practice managers. The register's description is one of the shortest on the whole register, and all the more precise for it: “business or practice managers who manage the operation of small to medium sized health practices”.

Fifteen units, ten of them core — a high proportion, and a sign of a qualification with a defined job rather than a configurable one. The core spans both halves of the role: the business half in customer service, budgets and financial plans, people performance and risk; and the clinical-adjacent half in medical terminology, health billing and accounting, infection prevention and control, and work health and safety.

That combination is what makes it unusual. A practice manager has to run a business and understand the clinical environment it operates in, and the core insists on both.

52 providers hold it — a narrow field for a qualification with this much demand behind it.

Roles it maps to

Roles described on the national register for HLT57715.

Where it leads

Practice management stands alone in its family. It is reached from clinical or administrative work, and leads into general management.

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2. Diploma · you are hereHLT57715 Practice Management
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