Our CPE division offers a wide variety of opportunities for nurses, midwives and other professionals who wish to develop their professional practice and academic careers.
These range from modules that can be studied individually, through pathways consisting of several modules on a common theme, to full undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.
Modules - see details of our modules which can be taken individually.
Pathways - find out more about our pathways, combining several modules on a given theme.
Study days and workshops programme - here you will find details of individual study days and workshops to keep your nursing and midwifery skills up to date.
NMC-recordable modules
The following modules approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council are available:
- Mentor preparation module / Midwifery sign-off mentor preparation module
- Practice Teacher
- Preparation of supervisor of midwives
- Practising public health: individual to population continuum
- Return to midwifery practice
- Return to practice for nursing and specialist community public health nursing
- Independent and supplementary prescribing for nurses, pharmacists and allied health professions
- Prescribing from the Community Practitioners Formulary for Registered Nurses without a Specialist Practice qualification
See also details of the rest of our modules which can be taken individually.
Undergraduate degrees
Our undergraduate degrees are suitable for registered nurses and midwives and other health practitioners wishing to develop and enhance their professional and clinical roles.
- Acute Clinical Practice BSc(Hons)
- Community Specialist Practice BSc(Hons)
- Health Studies [top-up] BA(Hons)
- Nurse Practitioner BSc(Hons)
- Professional Practice BSc(Hons)
- Specialist Community Public Health Nursing BSc(Hons) – for health visitors and school nurses
Postgraduate opportunities
We offer a broad range of postgraduate courses suitable for people from a variety of professional backgrounds, including those interested in studying health promotion.
The closing date for applications for all our postgraduate courses is 20 July, with the exception of Health Promotion MA and International Health Promotion MA. The closing date for these two courses only is 31 July.
- Advanced Nurse Practitioner MSc
- Clinical Studies MSc (PGCert PGDip)
- Clinical Studies and Management MSc (PGCert PGDip)
- Clinical Studies and Education MSc (PGcert PGDip)
- Community Health MSc (PGCert PGDip)
- Community Specialist Practice MSc (PGDip)
- Health MSc (PGCert PGDip)
- Health and Education MSc (PGCert PGDip)
- Health and Management MSc (PGCert PGDip)
- Health and Social Care Education PGCert
- Health Promotion MA (PGCert PGDip)
- Health Promotion and Education MA (PGDip)
- Health Promotion and Management MA (PGDip)
- International Health Promotion MA (PGDip)
- Specialist Community Public Health Nursing MSc (PGCert PGDip) – for health visitors and school nurses
Many of the masters courses link with opportunities for shared interprofessional learning in modules delivered through the Graduate Programme in Health and Social Sciences.
You may also be interested in information on our MPhil, PhD and professional doctorate programmes.
For further information please contact the relevant course administrator - contact details are listed on the individual course pages. You can also download our postgraduate course information flyer (pdf 18Kb), giving details of our course leaders and advice on choosing your course.
To discuss your options contact the relevant course leader via the 'contact us' tab on the course information pages or go to 'How to apply' and we will do our best to help.
