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The module is designed for clinicians with experience in the assessment and management of the patient with lower limb peripheral vascular disease, which encompasses both arterial, venous and lymphatic diseases. Students will critically explore and analyse existing and developing theories and concepts that underpin the assessment and management of peripheral vascular disease including arterial and venous pathology, thus facilitating both professional and personal growth and enhancing patient care.

This module will provide students with advancing theories for the assessment and management of people with peripheral arterial and venous disorders that affect the lower limb. There will be a strong focus on relevance to practice, practice planning and development, leadership, and transformation. It will blend theoretical approaches with the challenges of up-to-date care and surgical approaches with a focus on patient education, policy and person-centred care delivery throughout the module.

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Module contact: Jayne Robbie

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This module offers qualified health practitioners working with people living with diabetes the opportunity to extend the breadth, depth and complexity of their individual erudition and practice. Critically examining the knowledge, evidence and competencies to work at a higher level of practice to respond to prevention of complication of diabetes, and / or active evidence based management to prolong independence and promote quality of life.

This module examines the effects of diabetes related complications in terms of glycaemic management related to the effects of hypoglycaemia, ketoacidosis and/or hyperglycaemic hyperosmolar syndrome. Also, the incidence, evidence and effective management of diabetes related complications presenting as neuropathic, cardiovascular and psychological complications are critically examined.

Diabetes related complications are costly in terms of effects on quality of life, families, dependence, intrusion and treatment access. Additionally, economic, social and societal effects of early disability or individuals requiring intensive treatments for complications. Practitioners have a unique role to inform and support individuals to learn about their diabetes, to promote informed decisions and effective self-management and aim to avoid complications.

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Module contact: Martha Stewart

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• Apply to start in January

Our Caring for People living with diabetes course has been designed to provide an enhanced, in-depth understanding of diabetes. It is suitable for healthcare professionals involved in delivery or support of individuals living with diabetes across the healthcare sector.

It emphasises the holistic nature of diabetes care by an examination of best evidence into practice in diabetes care.

You will be encouraged to enhance your knowledge and develop an enquiring, critical and reflective approach to the study of caring for and working with people who experience diabetes mellitus. You will have the opportunity to both practise and discuss the application of your skills developed throughout the module in a variety of settings.

Module contact: Martha Stewart

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• Apply to start in April

This module offers qualified healthcare practitioners working with children & young people with diabetes, the opportunity to extend the breadth, depth and complexity of their individual practice. To equip them with the knowledge and competencies to work at a higher level of practice to respond and, as such, reflect the strategic direction of Children and Young Persons Diabetes Care Services nationally and internationally. This module provides a comprehensive postgraduate learning experience that fosters the use of problem solving, using solution focussed techniques with children, young people and their families.

Emerging models from international research highlights a requirement for a more flexible and highly skilled healthcare workforce. Diabetes care is a national and international priority due to increasing prevalence (World Health Organisation, (WHO), 2016).

There is an increasing importance that children, young people and their families acquire the knowledge and skills to enable to self-manage diabetes successfully and thus help to prevent the costly complications of this condition (NICE NG17, NG18, 2015). They can only gain the self-management knowledge and skills if they themselves are trained by well-educated, knowledgeable and competent practitioners in diabetes care (NHS Diabetes, 2012).

This is of particular importance for infants, children & young people (0-25 years) diagnosed with type 1 in the UK and across Europe. The increase in prevalence is 3-5% per annum and additionally the increasing numbers of type 2 and syndromic diabetes. Diabetes is a lifelong condition with increasing evidence to suggest that effective care from diagnosis is of paramount importance in avoiding short, medium and long-term complications.

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Module contacts: Martha Stewart and Carole Gelder 

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This module is designed to support registered nurses and nursing associates new to general practice to develop the knowledge and skills required to work safely, providing high quality care in making the transition into the general practice environment. The module is designed to support you to develop the knowledge and skills required to work safely, providing high quality care in making the transition into the general practice environment. This module can be accessed as a stand-alone module or as part of an award. The module encompasses the course aims being, practice led with a focus on interdisciplinary team working and being employability driven. 

Module contact: Donna Brookes

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• Apply to start in September

This module offers qualified health practitioners working with people experiencing diabetes an advanced career pathways which include higher level specialist practice, career progression in diabetes care, research development, publication opportunities and management of developing service opportunities.

This module recognises the importance of practitioners working with women with all types of diabetes, in planning, managing, delivering and evaluating effective evidence based diabetes care before, during and after pregnancy. The risks of pregnancy in diabetes for the mother and baby and the reasons for the adverse outcomes will be critically examined with reference to national and international evidence and guidelines for practice. Diabetes occurring during pregnancy is becoming increasing more prevalent and the escalating public health risk of gestational diabetes is recognised.

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Module contacts: Martha Stewart and Theresa Smyth

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• Apply to start in April

Our effective person-centred diabetes education module has been designed to advance an enhanced, critical understanding of how individuals learn about their diabetes. This module emphasises the individual lived experience of diabetes in an age-appropriate way.

The holistic nature of diabetes and effective engagement during person-centred contact is critically examined. Reflection of ‘Making every contact count’ in a meaningful way to meet individual needs in promotion of knowledge and effective self-management skills is fundamental to this module. Critical examination of current and emerging ways of delivering effective education, whilst acknowledging individual health literacy, with differing groups of people underpins this module.

Current and prospective diabetes service provision is also critically evaluated. Developing cultural competence and reaching hard to reach minority groups is also critically examined in terms of flexible approaches to current education provision. A visionary outreach approach encompassing language matters skills is essential in this module.

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Module contact: Martha Stewart

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• Apply to start in September

This module is designed to equip students with the ability to identify how evidence can be applied to underpin and guide diabetes care decisions and how evidence informs standards, policy and guidelines.

This module will include aspects of contemporary evidence and its application to diabetes care which is designed to enhance knowledge and skills in this specialist field. The module will require students to appraise and synthesis evidence and its application in diabetes care. Students will be encouraged to review their practices and then investigate what evidence they currently use to underpin their clinical decision making. The module has been designed in collaboration with clinical colleagues and blends theoretical approaches with opportunities of emerging evidence into clinical application and innovation.

This module is delivered as a standalone module, and as part of the Advancing Diabetes Care PgDip and MSc pathway. This module aligns with the post-graduate philosophy and is designed to be flexible, and practice led. Students will have the opportunity to develop skills of enquiry, reflection and problem solving. A flexible online learning approach is taken. Students will be encouraged to think critically and share practice experiences within an online discussion forum with fellow students, as well as engaging in both directed and self-directed learning activities. They will be an active partner in their own learning and development and in return will receive regular feedback and feed forward aimed at developing their academic skills and have the opportunity to discuss progress with the module team.

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Module contact: Martha Stewart

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This module will provide students with advancing strategies in foot care complexities and treatments in both diabetes and peripheral vascular disease (PVD) that can affect the lower limb, this encompasses both arterial, venous and lymphatic diseases. There will be a strong focus on relevance to practice, clinical management, practice planning and person-centred care approaches. It will blend theoretical advances with the challenges of up-to-date assessment, diagnosis and treatment approaches.

Applying a strong focus on education, national guidelines and treatment challenges throughout the module. Students will explore and recognise the potential for practice-led contemporary foot care strategies in PVD. Supporting students to extend and enhance their employability and career progression. Through identification of ways in which they can develop their services by utilising modern technology and diagnostics to innovate new models of interdisciplinary practice and interventions.

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Module contact: Jayne Robbie

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• Apply to start in October
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The NHS England’s Aspirant Cancer Career Education Development (ACCEND) Framework (NHSE, 2023) is designed to provide end-to-end transformational reform in the education, training and career pathways for cancer support workers, nurses and allied health professionals, supporting people affected by cancer both now and in the future. The ACCEND framework stipulates clear and concise guidance for the education and knowledge required for those healthcare professionals working within specialist cancer services across the United Kingdom.

This module is designed for multidisciplinary health care workers who are involved in the care of a person receiving SACT. This module provides you with the opportunity to learn the knowledge and skills to deliver optimal care for people receiving SACT based upon the current evidence.

Module contact: Emma Filby

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• Apply to start in October
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This module is designed for healthcare professionals who want to learn more about acute oncology. Acute oncology is the care of people with cancer who are experiencing a medical emergency. This could include things like a sudden drop in blood pressure, severe bleeding, or a sudden change in mental status.

The module will teach you about the skills you need to recognize these emergencies and know how to get help. You will also learn about the different types of support available to you and your patients.

Module contact: Emma Filby

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• Apply to start in April

This module is for healthcare professionals who want to learn more about the biology of cancer. It will help you understand how cancer develops and how it can be treated. You will also learn how to apply this knowledge to provide the best possible care to people with cancer.

Module contact: Alison Simons

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• Apply to start in September

The NHS England’s Aspirant Cancer Career Education Development (ACCEND) Framework (NHSE, 2023) is designed to provide end-to-end transformational reform in the education, training and career pathways for cancer support workers, nurses and allied health professionals, supporting people affected by cancer both now and in the future. The ACCEND framework stipulates clear and concise guidance for the education and knowledge required for those healthcare professionals working within specialist cancer services across the United Kingdom.

This module is predominantly designed for post graduate multidisciplinary healthcare workers who are involved in the care of a person affected by cancer. The module provides you with the opportunity to learn about the knowledge and skills to deliver optimal care for people affected by cancer, based upon the current evidence.

Module contact: Alison Simons

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• Apply to start in January

This module is designed for healthcare professionals who want to learn more about haematological cancer, which is a type of cancer that affects the blood, bone marrow, and lymphatic system. The module will teach you about the knowledge and skills needed to provide the best possible care to people with haematological cancer.

Module contact: Emma Filby

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This module will cover the fundamental aspects of neonatal care and will support the development of fundamental knowledge and skills for practice including the underpinning physiology. Post registration education pathways, in collaboration with service providers, allow for registered staff working in neonatal units to become equipped with the specific knowledge and skills required to practice safely and effectively in this critical care area (BAPM, 2012). This module is also available to Midwifery Support Workers and Registered Nurse Associates to develop their knowledge of fundamental neonatal care and conditions.

Module contact: Laura Maguire

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• Apply to start in September

The NHS England’s Aspirant Cancer Career Education Development (ACCEND) Framework (NHSE, 2023) is designed to provide end-to-end transformational reform in the education, training and career pathways for cancer support workers, nurses and allied health professionals, supporting people affected by cancer both now and in the future. The ACCEND framework stipulates clear and concise guidance for the education and knowledge required for those healthcare professionals working within specialist cancer services across the United Kingdom.

This module is predominantly designed for post graduate multidisciplinary healthcare workers who are involved in the care of adult patients who are involved in the care of a person receiving a stem cell transplant. The module provides you with the opportunity to learn about the knowledge and skills required to deliver optimal care for a person receiving a stem cell transplant based upon the current evidence.

Module contact: Emma Filby

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• Apply to start in January

This module is part of the MSc / PGDip / PGCert Transforming and Leading in Health Care and critically examines the challenges and issues effecting health and social care leaders globally. In many countries, the provision of health care remains highly challenging. This module examines the global issues faced across many health care systems, and utilises your experience from your home country, for you to learn from each other as well as published information.

The debated topics across the world are remarkably similar and include topics such as; finances, demand, technology, skilled professionals and public health. You will consider how different countries health strategies look to address their health challenges and you will debate how such strategies could shape or influence your own organisation. The module will help you critically appraise the issues that globally affect healthcare leaders including governance and accreditation, risk, workforce planning and global economics and policy.

Whilst many of the health topics that communities face is similar, solutions to the health care issues and demands are diverse. There is emphasis throughout the module on the collaborative and multi-professional skills required to successfully work with other agencies and professionals to enable the health care provision across communities.

It will challenge you to recognise the limitations and complexity of different health care approaches and enable you to think which approaches you may choose or consider in constructing a health system. For your employability, this module will potentially help you to focus on the country in which you might like to work in the future.

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Module contact: Kat Sethi

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This module will focus on holistic approaches to neonatal care and the underpinning physiology for core neonatal conditions. The long-term impact of neonatal care will be explored. This module has been developed to prepare knowledgeable, critical thinking, proactive, professional practitioners who are fit to meet the challenging demands of modern Neonatal care.

Module contact: Kat Sethi

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This module is part of the MSc Transforming and Leading in Health Care and explores creativity, innovation and service improvement and the application of these areas to the quality and safety of patient care. It will give you the experience of understanding, reviewing and applying theories of innovation, improvement and change into practice.

You will critically review theories, roles and responsibilities, and different methods while drawing on key learning from research and literature, whilst considering how these relate and apply to your practice. The aims of this module are to equip you with an in-depth knowledge, understanding and critical awareness when working in a creative and improvement space within the field of healthcare, to stretch your thinking and analysis of practice, contributing towards your personal and professional development and fostering independent study.

This will be facilitated by encouraging you to further develop your critical thinking, research skills and written skills, and will conclude with the production of a written assignment. By developing the skills and attribute to be able to identify problems accurately, assess appropriate methods and approaches to planning and implementing real and progressive innovations in your workplace you will enhance your employability.

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Module contact: Kat Sethi

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Our leadership in diabetes care module acknowledges that health professionals play a pivotal role in the experience of people living with diabetes. Interdisciplinary team working in partnership with people experiencing diabetes embraces the skills to deliver effective, efficient and efficacious diabetes care. Contemporary evidence emphasises the partnership working potential of interdisciplinary working of effective teams, but also highlights where collaborative practices of teams or team members can place restrictions on services and lack growth of psychological or service development opportunities in diabetes care.

This module investigates team working with a focus on unleashing successful opportunities for service development recognition whilst engaging in a culture of evidence, person to person communication, humanity and concern to support the delivery of person centred effective and individualised diabetes care.

Module contact: Martha Stewart

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• Apply to start in September
• Apply to start in October

Our leadership in peripheral vascular disease module acknowledges that health professionals play a pivotal role in the experience of people peripheral vascular disease (PVD), which encompasses both arterial, venous and lymphatic diseases. Interdisciplinary team working in partnership with people experiencing PVD embraces the skills to deliver effective, efficient and efficacious PVD care. Contemporary evidence emphasises the partnership working potential of interdisciplinary working of effective teams, but also highlights where collaborative practices of teams or team members can place restrictions on services and lack growth of psychological or service development opportunities in PVD.

Module contact: Jayne Robbie

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This module explicitly addresses students’ personal and/or professional development with a view to enhancing competence for service improvement in a rapidly changing health and healthcare environment. Through a flexible provision, students are inspired to reflect critically upon their individual learning needs as well as their organisations’ practices, to appraise and apply concepts from the literature on leadership, to issues of relevance for their role, organisation and overall programme of study.

Module contact: Kat Sethi / Charlotte Grundy

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• Apply to start in April - part-time
• Apply to start in April - distance-learning

This module builds on the foundation provided by the Core Skills for Working in General Practice: Caring across the Lifespan module. The module is designed to enable students to develop knowledge and skills particularly related to the management of Long-Term Conditions.  The growing number of people living with long-term conditions (LTC) is one of the biggest challenges facing our health and social care systems. General Practice Nurses (GPNs) are key clinicians for the delivery of care for those living with LTCs, with these individuals representing over 50% of general practice appointments.

This module recognises that often people live with more than one LTC and GPNs are required to have the knowledge and skills to assess, manage and provide person-centred care across a range of conditions. This requires generic, as well as specialist skills and knowledge spanning pathophysiology, pharmacology, psychology, and sociological perspectives which can impact on health outcomes.

Module contact: Donna Brookes

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• Apply to start in January

This module will support the development of knowledge and skills focusing on cardiac and respiratory conditions including the underpinning physiology and nursing skills required for practice. This module has been developed to prepare knowledgeable, critical thinking, proactive, professional practitioners who are fit to meet the challenging demands of modern Neonatal care in the global area.

Module contact: Laura Maguire

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This module is suited to healthcare professionals or others with an interest in obesity, prevention and management of type 2 diabetes. It gives an insight into the complex link between obesity and health, specifically in relation to type 2 diabetes and co-morbidities. This underpins a specialist and holistic approach. Obesity in the UK and internationally is a contemporary health concern, with recognition that it is one of the leading preventable causes of death currently. Rising rates of childhood obesity have been recognised as a UK national emergency.

Module contact: Martha Stewart and Tahira Bashir

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• Apply to start in September

This module offers qualified health practitioners working with people living with diabetes the opportunity to extend the breadth, depth and complexity of their individual erudition and practice in relation to the promotion and inclusion of suitable physical activity advice and engagement that is person centred and culturally appropriate. Utilising an interdisciplinary approach this will support individuals and communities to understand more about the role of physical activity in their health and diabetes prevention or care.

Module contacts: Martha Stewart and Tahira Bashir

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• Apply to start in April

This module is aimed at post-registration healthcare professionals that wish to build upon prior knowledge, skills and experience that have been acquired in practice previously and develop your knowledge of anaesthetic care. It will enable you as a health care practitioner to develop your role, skills and management of anaesthetic care to a level capable of delivering care to patients with complex needs that may be undergoing elective, non-scheduled or emergency procedures.

Module contact: Lewis Clemson

This module will include all aspects of lower limb surgical practice in peripheral vascular surgery, which encompasses both arterial, venous and lymphatic diseases, and is designed to enhance knowledge and practical skills in this specialist surgical field and to enable students to achieve enhanced clinical competencies.

Module contact: Jayne Robbie

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• Apply to start in January

This module is designed for healthcare professionals who want to learn more about cancer care. It will help you develop your understanding of your specific area of expertise, as well as leadership and management skills. You will also learn about how to improve the quality of care for cancer patients.

Module contact: Emma Filby

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• Apply to start in September

The module is designed to enable students to develop knowledge and skills to underpin the development of their career as a leader in the delivery of general practice services. It incorporates current policy initiatives, leadership skills and the knowledge required to deliver evidence-based high quality, services.

Module contact: Donna Brookes

This module offers an opportunity to critically consider and investigate the intricacies and complexities of living with all aspects of lower limb peripheral vascular disease (PVD), this encompasses both arterial, venous and lymphatic diseases, as well as associated tissue viability complexities and multi-morbidity. People with PVD and associated multi-morbidities can experience high rates of mental ill health including increased incidences of depression, anxiety, and distress.

Module contact: Jayne Robbie

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• Apply to start in April

Our psychological and psycho-social aspects of diabetes module offers an opportunity to critically consider and investigate the intricacies and complexities of living with diabetes. People with diabetes can experience disproportionately high rates of mental ill health including increased incidences of depression, anxiety, distress and eating disorders.

Module contact: Martha Stewart

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• Apply to start in April

The module aims to explore Quality Improvement methodologies and their application to wound healing and tissue repair to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of patient care and service delivery.  It will support the development of your knowledge, understanding and skills in the application of Quality Improvement strategies into practice to support the delivery of high-quality care, ensuring improved patient services and outcomes. There will be a strong focus on measurement for improvement, understanding systems, variation, testing change ideas, leadership and strategic planning.

Module contact: Jackie Stephen Haynes

This module is aimed at health and social care practitioners whose roles bring them into contact with multiple birth families and who wish to gain further knowledge and skills in caring for and supporting them.

Module contact: Lara Alamad

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• Apply to start in September

This module offers qualified health practitioners working with people living with type 1 diabetes the opportunity to extend the breadth, depth and complexity of their individual erudition and practice. Critically examining the knowledge, evidence and competencies to work at a higher level of practice to respond to the advancing glycaemic management techniques and developing digital technologies for people with type 1 diabetes.

Module contact: Martha Stewart

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• Apply to start in January

This module is part of the MSc Transforming and Leading Health Care and aims to facilitate advancing of your self-learning and self-understanding. It will give you insight into your personal and professional strengths, your limitations, your leadership, communication skills and work styles, and how these affect your behaviours including how you learn and your personal resilience. It incorporates psychometric tools and instruments  Understanding personality and effectively reading the behaviour of other people is not a hit and miss process but a skill which can be learned and then applied into every aspect of work and life. It is a core skill that will influence your professional working life.

Module contact: Helen Cope

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• Apply to start in September - part-time
• Apply to start in September - blended learning

The aims of this module are to equip you with an in-depth knowledge, understanding and critical awareness of wound healing and tissue repair and to challenge your thinking and analysis of practice, contributing towards your personal and professional development and fostering independent study. There will be a strong focus on relevance to practice, practice development, leadership, transformation and strategic planning. 

Module contact: Jackie Stephen Haynes