Stand alone modules

We offer a number of modules which can be taken as stand alone, or in combination to make up an award, for both undergraduate (level 6) or postgraduate (level 7). Each module costs £885 (£1,535 for international students). Fees from September 2021: £905 per module and £1,570 for international students. 

Undergraduate modules

These can be taken as stand-alone, combined as three modules to make up an award such as Graduate Certificate Public Health, or six modules can 'top up' your Diploma in Higher Education to give you a BSc degree.

• Transforming Health & Care Quality
• Negotiated Learning
• 12-Lead ECGs and Cardiac Arrythmias
• Cancer & Supportive Care
• Challenges in Leadership
• Holistic Examination of the Newborn
• Systematic Anti-Cancer Therapy Practice
• Anaesthetic Care
• Assessment and Management of the Deteriorating Person
• Surgical First Assistant

Additionally, the below three modules can be taken together as a University Diploma in Neonatal Intensive Care.

• Pathophysiology of Neonatal Care
• Practice Module for Neonatal Care
• Management of the Complex Neonate

For detailed module descriptions view BSc Healthcare Practice. 

Postgraduate modules

These are advanced academic modules. If you are considering taking these as stand-alone and have no prior university level study in these subjects, you are strongly advised to undertake a Higher Education level 6 module first.

• Global Health and Sustainable Development Goals
• Evidence Based Global Public Health
• Essentials of Global Epidemiology
• Health Promotion: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
• Environment, Health and Sustainable Development 
• Global Healthcare Systems: Policy and Practice
• Migration, Culture and Health 

For detailed module descriptions view MSc Global Public Health.

• Pathophysiology of Neonatal Care
• Practice Module for Neonatal care
• Management of the Complex Neonate
• Foundations of Simulation
• Application of Human Factors to Simulation Based Education
• The Conduct of Healthcare Simulation Based Education
• The Future of Healthcare Simulation Based Education
• Anaesthetic Practice
• Cancer and Supportive Care
• Cancer-Systemic anti-cancer therapy practice – administration pathway
• Cancer-Systemic anti-cancer therapy practice – non-administration pathway
• Cardiac Arrythmias and 12 lead ECGs
• Decision Making in Practice
• Deteriorating Patient-Assessment and Management of the deteriorating patient
• Developing roles in Practice
• Ethics-Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Care Law
• Newborn-Holistic Examination of the newborn
• Surgical First Assistant
• Teaching in Practice

For detailed module descriptions view MSc Healthcare Practice.

Negotiated Learning

There is no formal taught content to this module and the subject/focus of the module is chosen by you, in partnership with your employer and learning facilitator. The University facilitates learning via academic support, relevant guidance materials and access to resources. Workshop sessions will be student-led to critically analyse your learning and development and peer critique is a fundamental component of the module. Negotiated Learning modules can either be undergraduate or postgraduate level.

For students wishing to undertake a level 5 negotiated learning module as a route to level 6 (first degree) study via the BSc Healthcare Practice please note the following:

• If a student has a level 5 (diploma level) professional qualification from a UK institution it would not normally be necessary to undertake a level 5 module, although, if a student had not studied for many years or had previously studied outside the UK, it might be beneficial to do so and they should discuss learning objectives that will enable them to enhance and refresh their academic skills.
• Students with overseas professional qualifications will need to undertake the NARIC process in order to determine the UK level to which their qualification matches. Please go to naric.org.uk for more information on this process.
• For those whose certified professional qualifications are either below diploma level from the UK or from overseas institutions that following NARIC map to UK level 4 or lower it is recommended that they undertake a level 5 negotiated learning module as described above but also make contact with the programme director for the programme to which they wish to apply to discuss their specific situation. It may be necessary for them to undertake study of more than one module at level 5 prior to commencing the BSc Healthcare Practice.