Health Sciences

The programme is designed for experienced health and social care professionals, involved in leading and developing contemporary professional practice. All students who have applied and meet the entry requirements will be invited to an interview with the programme lead.

Potential/prospective students will typically:

• Hold current first level professional registration with a relevant regulatory body, e.g. Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) etc.
• Be working in clinical practice. Some potential/prospective students may be managers, educators or researchers within a healthcare setting.
• Hold an undergraduate second-class honours degree or higher in a related subject. Practitioners with extensive practice experience and no formal undergraduate degree will be considered for entry on the basis of evidence presented within their professional portfolio and discussion at interview.

The course combines conceptual, theoretical and practical learning approaches to the study of health and social care practice and will provide the opportunity for you to develop skills and expertise to an advanced level. The MSc is grounded in professional practice and will offer the opportunity to create and interpret new knowledge through research and advanced scholarship.

There are a number of routes available:

• MSc Health Sciences
• MSc Health Sciences (Clinical Education)
• MSc Health Sciences (Leadership and Management)
• MSc Health Sciences (Neonatal Practice)
• MSc Health Sciences (Heart Failure Practice)
• MSc Health Sciences (Critical Care Practice)
• MSc Health Sciences (Ethics and Law)
• MSc Health Sciences (Ethics and Palliative Care)
• MSc Health Sciences (Safeguarding)
• MSc Health Sciences (Child Care Law)

Broad educational aims of the programme are to:

• Demonstrate the capacity for critical enquiry, analysis and application of knowledge in your practice, and to support innovations in health and social care.
• Demonstrate effective self-management and leadership skills to effect change in health and social care.
• Engage within a learning programme consolidating and extending theoretical knowledge and practice skills relevant to your own discipline, facilitating academic and professional development to enhance the delivery of quality care.
• Promote and enhance your skills in critical reflection, evaluation, professional decision making and leadership to inform best practice.
• Promote effective collaboration, interdisciplinary and interagency working practices.
• Engage with work-based learning to support the development and implementation of evidence-based practice; establish and lead projects in your practice setting.