Short Course
Future-proof
your Healthcare Practice – 2026 Edition
Cut the anxiety about what’s next for your healthcare practice over six weeks of practical learning. You will master the three key challenges facing healthcare: evolving patient expectations, digital transformation, and regulatory change.
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What to expect
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Certification |
30 CPD points (level 1, including ethics) Henley Business School Africa certificate of completion |
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Faculty |
Delivered by leading healthcare, finance, legal, and digital‑health experts. |
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Next Intake |
4 March - 8 April 2026 |
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Delivery Method |
Fully online |
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Duration |
6 sessions running every Wednesday evening from 18:00 – 20:00 |
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Price |
R 6 900 (incl. VAT) |
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Location |
Online |
Is this programme right for you?
This programme is ideal for doctors, specialists, dentists, therapists, allied health professionals, practice managers, administrators, and anyone seeking clarity in managing or improving a healthcare practice.
The moment you complete a Henley short course you automatically join our formidable global alumni network.
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“To the Henley Team, CONGRATULATIONS! I find this course unbelievably exciting, informative and revealing on areas where we had taken much for granted.”
“I enjoyed interacting with like-minded professionals.”
“Learning from open-minded, motivating educators.”
“Networking, knowledge sharing, and increasing my knowledge with others’ experience.”
“Networking, knowledge sharing, and increasing my knowledge with others’ experience.”
“I am reminded that learning is inspirational, but also, as a leader, it gives me time and space to reflect on my past decisions and what is to come.”
“Learning that I am not the only one frustrated with the system. The information given gave me hope for the future. My son is a medical student, and I would really like to keep him in South Africa!”
“The vast knowledge shared points to a future that cannot be ignored but rather is to be embraced by practitioners that intend to remain relevant in the health care space.”
“Very informative with practical tools for planning and pivoting.”
Meet your faculty
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Dr Abri Bezuidenhout
A surgical innovator reshaping bariatric care through values-driven precision
Dr Bezuidenhout is the founder of South Africa's first ethics-centred surgical practice, Bespoke Surgical Institute, where science meets compassionate patient care. He is an award-winning surgeon (ASSA Young Surgeons Award) and past SASSiT president who practices across multiple Pretoria hospitals while maintaining academic engagement at Steve Biko Academic Hospital. Membership in six prestigious surgical societies fuels his multidisciplinary approach to metabolic, oncological, and gastrointestinal care. His focus is not just on performing procedures, but reimagining the entire patient journey through trust, collaboration, and evidence-based innovation.
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Dr Bradley Beira
A medicolegal navigator with more than 24 years guiding healthcare risk management
Dr Beira combines clinical insight with corporate governance expertise across borders. A board leadership veteran, he has shaped international health risk practices while lecturing on medical ethics and system architecture throughout South Africa and beyond.
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David Maclean
An educational disruptor who turns learning investments into growth engines
David Maclean is the founder of Learning Advisory, which merges cognitive science with entrepreneurial thinking to measure what actually matters. Having navigated leadership roles at SAE Institute, CIEE, Educor, and Henley Business School, David now challenges conventional metrics through his #CoCuriousPodcast and LearnSmartly partnership, partnering with bold leaders ready to rewrite the rules of educational success.
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Darren Sweidan
A healthcare funding strategist who bridges clinical practice and financial management
After starting in physiotherapy, Darren's 20-plus-year journey took him from hospital administration to Discovery Health's leadership, where he now heads the Health Professional unit, orchestrating engagement with medical specialists and managing associated risk. -
Dr Feroza Arbee
A mental health champion breaking cultural barriers for women's wellbeing
Dr Arbee is a specialist psychiatrist whose childhood fascination with people evolved into groundbreaking work at the intersection of culture, gender, and mental health. She challenges societal perceptions while advocating destigmatisation through her private practice. Her unique lens captures how cultural influences shape illness presentation, treatment approaches, and social understanding, and seeks to create pathways to healing that honour women's diverse experiences and voices.
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Dr Peter Cruse
A hospital turnaround maestro who transforms healthcare finances through data, not headcount
A Rhodes Scholar and UCT professor, Peter combines medical brilliance with business acumen, consistently delivering more than 20% EBITDA improvements across multi-site hospitals in five countries. His secret? Marketing-driven revenue growth paired with surgical precision cost-cutting and lean methodology.
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Suren Govender
A technology disruptor who transforms digital challenges into strategic advantages
As Inburru Technologies founder, Suren merges technical expertise with crisis leadership, having navigated a cyber-attack during COVID at Life Healthcare Group. Leveraging executive experience from Absa, Accenture Analytics, IBM, and Dell, he challenges conventional technology frameworks through his diverse ventures in healthcare, telecommunications, cybersecurity, and data analytics, collaborating with organisations to protect them against cyberattacks and data breaches.
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Tasneem Mayet
AA sustainability champion focused on transforming healthcare economics
Tasneem moved from investment banking to circular economy advocacy. She leverages her green finance certification and LSE education to collaborate with think tanks and NGOs on making quality healthcare accessible to all. Her work bridges profit with purpose across healthcare, technology, and education sectors.
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Tebogo Mekgoe
A systems thinking maverick who untangles organisational complexity with counter-intuitive clarity
An engineering mind combines with a holistic approach in this aviation and transport veteran with more than 16 years of executive experience. As Orenda Strategy and Advisory co-founder, Tebogo transforms intricate challenges into elegantly simple solutions through his refreshingly unconventional lens, and as adjunct faculty member at Henley Business School, he teaches executives that systems thinking isn't just a methodology, it's the natural language for navigating today's interconnected business landscape.
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Dr Unben Pillay
Digital healthcare visionary with 22+ years in family medicine
Unben heads multiple practitioner associations while championing tech-enabled chronic disease management. He is a practising physician who understands the frontlines while simultaneously driving industry-wide innovation through his leadership of South Africa's Digital Healthcare Association.
Programme format
Unlike traditional courses, Future-Proof Your Healthcare Practice blends expert guidance with peer collaboration. You'll work alongside healthcare leaders facing similar challenges and leave with a concrete 90-day action plan for strengthening your practice.
The programme is structured as follows:
• Weekly self‑reflection prompts
• Simple practical tools, including the One‑Page Practice Calculator
• A 90‑day action plan to embed change immediately
What you will gain
From navigating complex insurance decisions to preventing burnout, this healthcare management course delivers specific tools you can apply immediately.
You will emerge with:
- Greater confidence in making complex decisions
- A practical understanding of your practice’s financial health
- Tools to safely integrate digital and AI support
- Clarity on regulatory and data‑privacy expectations
- A more resilient, patient‑centred practice model
- A personalised 90‑day improvement plan
- A one‑page practice operating system
What you will learn
Session 1
The healthcare ecosystem: Decision anxiety and the weight of responsibility in healthcare- Neuroscience of high‑stakes decisions
- Mapping your decision pinch points
- Collective insight harvesting
- 90-day action plan: Identify one recurring anxiety loop
Session 2
- Financial clarity and resilience in healthcare
- One‑page income–cost–capacity calculator
- Detecting early warning signals
- Pair conversations on financial insights
- 90-day action plan: Strengthen one cashflow lever
Session 3
Healthcare technology as colleague, not competitor- Real applications of AI and digital tools
- Workflow redesign to reduce admin fatigue
- Peer harvest: what tech can remove
- 90-day action plan: Pilot one digital improvement
Session 4
Legal, ethical and data readiness in healthcare- Medico‑legal cases and risk‑mapping
- POPIA, consent, AI, and privacy
- Innovation versus compliance dialogue
- 90-day action plan: Identify and address blind spots
Session 5
- The human healthcare practice: Trust, team, sustainability
- Patient loyalty and communication
- Team honesty through ‘reality rounds’
- Social and environmental micro‑practices
- 90-day action plan: Hold a team trust conversation
Session 6
The future healthcare practice operating system- The Four Ps: Purpose | People | Process | Profit
- Integrating wellbeing and business health
- Living-systems reflection
- 90-day action plan: Build your one‑page practice operating system
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