Wound Healing and Tissue Repair MSc - Module / MSc / PgCert / PgDip
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This newly designed innovative course, which can be studied as both standalone modules or a full MSc, has been developed to meet the needs of interdisciplinary healthcare practitioners working in partnership with people in relation to wound healing and tissue repair....
- Level Postgraduate Taught
- Study mode Distance Learning
- Award Module / MSc / PgCert / PgDip
- Start date October 2025, January 2026
- Fees View course fees
- Subjects
- Location Online Learning
This course is:
Open to International Students
Overview
This newly designed innovative course, which can be studied as both standalone modules or a full MSc, has been developed to meet the needs of interdisciplinary healthcare practitioners working in partnership with people in relation to wound healing and tissue repair. This course aims to address the very significant challenges associated with wound healing and tissue repair, providing a global perspective, whilst drawing upon existing expert knowledge and experience of working with international partners. The course team are dedicated and committed staff who are experts in the speciality.
The principal aim of the course is to support and enable you to critically explore and analyse existing and developing theories and concepts that underpin wound healing and tissue repair. This will equip you to embrace a strategic leadership role in the development and delivery of efficient, innovative, evidence based wound care services.
The course will build upon your previous educational and clinical experience, supporting you as a life-long learner. This innovative programme is designed to help you gain a greater understanding of the complexities of a range of wounds and how best to support and enable effective individualised management.
It is suitable for healthcare professionals including nurses, allied health professionals and doctors registered with their relevant professional councils or within their country of practice for international partners.
You will develop a wide range of skills, learn about new and emerging evidence and gain critical understanding in wound healing and tissue repair. You will acquire knowledge to develop and improve clinical practice in the care of people with wounds across the age span. You will critically explore the evidence base towards your provision and delivery of individualised wound healing and tissue repair.
What's covered in this course?
This programme has been designed in collaboration with clinical colleagues and blends erudite, evidence based theoretical approaches with practicalities of service development, effective communication strategies, leadership, development of evaluation skills and person-centred care approaches.
The international dimension of wound healing and repair in different environments and resources underpins this programme. You will identify ways in which you can improve your practice and develop your service delivery whilst enhancing care delivery in order to pioneer new interdisciplinary service developments at the cutting edge of wound healing and tissue repair.
The programme will enable practitioners working in various aspects of care who want to advance their skills, knowledge and practice, with people either with skin integrity issues or wounds. You will develop critical analytical skills through interactive online learning opportunities, so that you are able to critically examine practices within the context of the legislative and professional frameworks of your own country.
There will be a strong focus on relevance to practice, practice development, leadership, transformation and strategic planning. An important focus will be your development of higher levels of understanding. Decision-making, critical analysis and appraisal of evidence-based practice and clinical guidelines are a strong theme throughout the course.
Wound healing and tissue repair including a range of aetiologies of wounds will be considered from a strategic global perspective with a focus on education, policy and care delivery, thus facilitating your professional and personal growth.
This course specifically addresses the need to pursue excellence, to be practice-led, and knowledge applied through a flexible provision that encourages you to develop you research and innovation ideas, enabling you to satisfy your individual learning needs, whilst contributing to the area of study.
The following modules can be studied as standalone modules:
- Quality Improvement in Wound Healing and Tissue Repair
- Wound Healing and Tissue Repair
This bespoke course is for those with a passion for further knowledge in wound healing who also want to add to and drive change in this field. The course tutors are supportive, engaging and innovative with their teaching methods and encouraging to those who are starting out in the field of wound care.
There is huge flexibility offered. As the sessions are virtual, it enables you to access sessions as needed when undertaking this course alongside job and family life. As a student, you feel enabled to share expert knowledge in your workplace and are given the tools needed to drive change.
Jessica Griffiths
In my role as a lead Tissue Viability Nurse, I found that the content was perfect to help improve my clinical practice and offered practical guidance on utilising Quality Improvement methodology to its full advantage.
Monique Maries
Why Choose Us?
- This innovative course has been developed to meet the needs of healthcare practitioners working in the field of wound care field.
- This course is completely online to enable access by healthcare professionals across the globe.
- Our multi professional team comprises medical, nursing, podiatry and other allied healthcare professionals together with colleagues from within the faculty and clinical practice to provide an exciting, interactive course.
- BCU has a specialist Wound Healing Development Unit which helps develop the education provision to meet the needs of patients, carers and staff.
- You can apply for standalone modules or a full Master’s course, meaning you can fit the course to your needs.
- The course is delivered by experts from our Wound Healing Practice Development Unit, who are active practitioners in the field.
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Next Event: 5 February 2025
Entry Requirements
Essential requirements
This course is suitable for experienced and employed healthcare professionals who hold current professional registration with a UK regulatory body (NMC, HCPC, GMC).
Applicants will also need one of the following:
- A minimum of three years in your area of clinical practice with a first degree or evidence of recent professionally related study at diploma or degree level
- Accredited degree level study within the last five years.
Applying with international qualifications
See below for further information on applying as an international student.
If you have a qualification that is not listed, please contact us.
Fees & How to Apply
UK students
Annual and modular tuition fees shown are applicable to the first year of study. The University reserves the right to increase fees for subsequent years of study in line with increases in inflation (capped at 5%) or to reflect changes in Government funding policies or changes agreed by Parliament. View fees for continuing students.
Award: Module
Starting: Oct 2025
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- Fees
- Distance Learning
- TBC
- £860 per 20 credit module
Award: Module
Starting: Jan 2026
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- Fees
- Distance Learning
- TBC
- £860 per 20 credit module
Award: MSc
Starting: Oct 2025
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- Duration
- Fees
- Distance Learning
- 3 years
- £860 per 20 credit module
Award: PgCert
Starting: Oct 2025
- Mode
- Duration
- Fees
- Distance Learning
- 6 months
- £860 per 20 credit module
Award: PgDip
Starting: Oct 2025
- Mode
- Duration
- Fees
- Distance Learning
- 12 months
- £860 per 20 credit module
International students
Annual and modular tuition fees shown are applicable to the first year of study. The University reserves the right to increase fees for subsequent years of study in line with increases in inflation (capped at 5%) or to reflect changes in Government funding policies or changes agreed by Parliament. View fees for continuing students.
Award: Module
Starting: Oct 2025
- Mode
- Duration
- Fees
- Distance Learning
- TBC
- £860 per 20 credit module
Award: Module
Starting: Jan 2026
- Mode
- Duration
- Fees
- Distance Learning
- TBC
- £860 per 20 credit module
Award: MSc
Starting: Oct 2025
- Mode
- Duration
- Fees
- Distance Learning
- 3 years
- £860 per 20 credit module
Award: PgCert
Starting: Oct 2025
- Mode
- Duration
- Fees
- Distance Learning
- 6 months
- £860 per 20 credit module
Award: PgDip
Starting: Oct 2025
- Mode
- Duration
- Fees
- Distance Learning
- 12 months
- £860 per 20 credit module
Personal statement
You’ll need to submit a personal statement as part of your application for this course. This will need to highlight your passion for postgraduate study – and your chosen course – as well as your personal skills and experience, academic success, and any other factors that will support your application for further study.
If you are applying for a stand alone module, please include the title of the module you want to study in your Personal Statement.
Not sure what to include? We’re here to help – take a look at our top tips for writing personal statements and download our free postgraduate personal statement guide for further advice and examples from real students.
Course in Depth
Level 7 - Core Modules
In order to complete this course a student must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 120 or 140 credits):
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.
This module can also be studied as a standalone module, starting in October. To choose this option, select the ‘Module’ option in the Fees and How to Apply tab.
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.
This module can also be studied as a standalone module, starting in January. To choose this option, select the ‘Module’ option in the Fees and How to Apply tab.
This module specifically addresses the broader programme aims related to “pursuing excellence” and “practice-led, knowledge applied” through a flexible provision that encourages students to develop their research ideas, enabling those on various Health MSc programmes to satisfy their individual learning needs, whilst contributing to their area of study.
This online module 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 and potentially elements from the Intelligent Behaviour AnalyticsTM programme, or similar.
This double module provides the student with the opportunity to complete a piece of work around a chosen topic in order to demonstrate competence in the planning, execution, analysis and evaluation of a Research Project, a Systematic Review or Project Management. It involves 400 hours of study. The focus is on facilitating the student's independent, critical study in their academic discipline or area of professional practice. It will also serve those who wish to embark on Doctoral studies in the future.
Or
This triple module forms the final bridge between the award of a Postgraduate Diploma and a Health MSc related to a named award. It provides the student with the opportunity to complete a piece of work around a chosen topic in order to demonstrate competence in the planning, execution, analysis and evaluation of a Research Project, a Systematic Review or Project Management. It involves 600 hours of study. The focus is on facilitating the student's independent, critical study in their academic discipline or area of professional practice. It will also serve those who wish to embark on Doctoral studies in the future.
Level 7 - Optional Modules
In order to complete this course a student must successfully complete at least 40 or 60 credits from the following indicative list of OPTIONAL modules:
Wounds to the lower leg are a significant cause of pain, anguish and distress to patients. The management of these long term conditions are often poorly managed in practice. The module will provide the student with insight into the various assessment strategies, and management modalities. This module is aimed at predominantly graduate practitioner who care for wounds affecting the lower leg.
The cost of chronic wounds has been estimated to be £2.3-3.1 billion per year in the UK. In order to reduce long term costs and improve wound healing rates use of advanced skills in wound care need to become part of the tissue viability practitioner’s tool kit. This module will enable the predominately graduate healthcare practitioner to explore the techniques and consider the support and requirements needed to adopt them into practice.
Pressure ulcers are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality across all age groups. Treating pressure ulcers are estimated to cost between £1.2 billion and £2.4 billion per year in the UK, therefore preventing pressure ulcers is high on the agenda for the NHS and for other healthcare institutions globally. This module will address the considerations needed to implement clinically an effective pressure ulcers prevention and treatment strategy.
This module is aimed at predominantly graduate healthcare practitioners who wish to negotiate learning of a bespoke topic. Under the guidance of facilitators, you will be able to direct your learning and identify relevant learning opportunities that you feel enable you to learn more about a specific field of study.
This module is aimed at post graduate senior healthcare practitioners who wish to enhance their skills and knowledge required to deliver evidence-based clinical management for a patient with sepsis in a range of settings, including pre-hospital, primary care, ward settings and specialist areas. The module will allow practitioners to explore the pathophysiological processes of sepsis, understand the complexities of sepsis in a range of settings and evaluate the reliability and validity of current evidence to justify the management of interventions.
This module aims to facilitate your advanced learning and critical appraisal of contemporary safeguarding issues, and analyse how statutory and non-statutory agencies and services can work together to safeguard adults, children and vulnerable young people. It considers current safeguarding topics which have attracted high media attention and examines different agency interventions, good practice and failings, and how this knowledge can be applied to learning lessons for the future and to current best safeguarding practice.
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Download nowTeaching Approaches
During the course you will experience a range of learning and teaching approaches delivered online in both a synchronous and an asynchronous manner. You will attend online lectures, discussion forums, small group discussions, simulations and chat facilities with your peers and members of the teaching team. These approaches recognise that students have different learning styles with some reacting best to the voice while others prefer the written word, therefore a range is offered to suit all needs. You will access the learning materials via our Virtual Learning Environment – Moodle, Microsoft Teams and other means subject to the modules undertaken.
In addition to the scheduled teaching, you will be given directed learning activities pre and/or post classroom activities and you will be expected to undertake any reading required e.g., access to policy documents or guidelines. You will also be expected to spend time on your own independent study to give you the opportunity to read around subjects in more depth in preparation for assessment activity. It is expected that you fully engage with all of the resources available to you to maximise your learning opportunities.
The library will play a key role in your learning journey and you will receive both written and verbal guidance regarding accessing library resources.
Guidance
In addition, to the course leader, you will be allocated a personal tutor who will be with you throughout your journey, an important resource and the person to go to if you have concerns, issues or anything that may impact on your successful completion of the course.
Each of the modules is led by a module tutor/convenor and you can discuss any specific issues regarding the module with them as required. They will brief you on the assessment/s associated with each module to ensure you are very clear of the expectations for successful completion. You will be exposed to a range of assessment tasks including presentations, course work, a quality improvement project to name but some – each module has its own assessment and discussion will take place with you to consider your modular choices, to ensure you select the most appropriate offering to balance the associated workload.
The course leader, module tutor/convenor and personal tutor are all available via e-mail, teams or by telephone. Please remember that there is very little that is insurmountable but to help we need to know what is wrong, so do talk to us so we can provide you with the necessary support.
Employability
Employability
The programme will enable practitioners working in various aspects of care who want to advance their skills, knowledge and practice, in working with people with skin integrity issues or wounds. You will develop critical analysis skills through interactive online learning opportunities, so that you are able to critically examine practices within the context of the legislative and professional frameworks of your own country.
There will be a strong focus on relevance to practice, practice development, leadership, transformation and strategic planning. An important focus will be your development of higher levels of understanding. Decision-making, critical analysis, appraisal of evidence-based practice and clinical guidelines are strong themes throughout the course.
You will consider wound healing and tissue repair including a range of aetiologies of wounds from a strategic global perspective with a focus on education, policy and care delivery, thus facilitating your professional and personal growth.
This course specifically addresses the need to pursue excellence. It is practice-led, and knowledge-applied through a flexible provision that encourages you to develop your research and innovation ideas, enabling you to satisfy your individual learning needs, while contributing to the area of study.
International
Birmingham City University is a vibrant and multicultural university in the heart of a modern and diverse city. We welcome many international students every year – there are currently students from more than 80 countries among our student community.
The University is conveniently placed, with Birmingham International Airport nearby and first-rate transport connections to London and the rest of the UK.
Our international pages contain a wealth of information for international students who are considering applying to study here, including:
- Details of the entry requirements for our courses
- Some of the good reasons why you should study here
- How to improve your language skills before starting your studies
- Information relevant to applicants from your country
- Where to find financial support for your studies.
Facilities & Staff
Our Facilities
Our Nursing and Midwifery courses are based at our City South campus in leafy Edgbaston.
We’ve spent £41million expanding our facilities at City South. These facilities offer hands-on practical experience, replicating the spaces you will come across in professional practice.
In a sector where new techniques are constantly being discovered, we work hard to ensure that you learn using the most up-to-date equipment available. Alongside physical spaces such as a mock operating theatre and wards, we also make use of online and virtual technology, such as our virtual ward and virtual case creator.
See more of our skills facilities at City South
Centre for Skills and Simulation
The Centre for Skills and Simulation offers a range of different spaces which replicate situations that you will encounter in practice. These include hospital wards, an operating theatre and a home environment room.
Our mock wards enable you to get a feel of what a ward is really like before you head out for your first placement. The hospital wards can be adapted from low care to high dependency care environment with the necessary monitoring equipment.
The home environment room is the perfect space for teaching communications skills and allows us to simulate a community setting for our students. It is particularly useful for mental health nurses, learning disability nurses and midwives.
Simulation Manikins
We have several Simulation men (SIM men) and simulation babies (SIM babies) which are anatomically correct manikins used for teaching specific techniques such as advanced adult and paediatric life support skills, acute and high dependency clinical skills, first aid and communication skills. The manikins contain software which replicates real symptoms, and can manipulate indicators such as blood pressure, pulse and heart rate for extra realism. SIM man can even ‘talk’ to the students as they are treating him, to add another dimension to learning.
Computer Facilities
The Seacole building has two open-access IT Suites which offer PCs, printers, photocopiers and scanners. There is also an IT Helpdesk for quick and easy help with your computing or internet issues.
Our PCs utilise the latest Intel i5 core technology, all with:
- Fast (unrestricted) internet connectivity
- Ability to save files to USB, DVD & CD
- Microsoft Office software
- Research and statistical software
- Storage space which can be accessed from any PC across the University and from home
Our PCs are also designed to support students who may have difficulties with reading and writing, featuring specialised software with zooming/magnification and screen reading capabilities, which may also be customised for individual student needs.
In addition to desktop PCs, we also offer a laptop loan facility, allowing students to borrow a laptop for up to six hours while on campus.
Our staff
David Gray
Professor of Wound Study
David Gray graduated as Registered Nurse in 1989 from Foresterhill College, Aberdeen (now Robert Gordon University) and with a Postgraduate Diploma in Wound Healing and Tissue Repair from Cardiff University, in 2010. His interest in tissue viability began in 1986 when, as a first ward student nurse, he developed blisters on both heels. These took...
More about DavidJackie Stephen-Haynes
Professor
Jackie Stephen-Haynes completed her RGN in 1984, specialising in orthopaedics and then, more specifically, rheumatology. Working in a rheumatology specialist unit, her interest in tissue viability began with an audit of wounds and a focus on pressure ulcer prevention. The increasing emphasis on primary care led to Jackie being appointed as the...
More about JackiePaul Chadwick
Visiting Professor in Tissue Viability
Paul Chadwick is the Clinical Director at the College of Podiatry, Principal Podiatrist at Salford Royal Foundation Trust and Managing Director at Curativo Woundcare Consultancy.
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Senior lecturer in Tissue Viability
Jo is qualified as an RGN in 1994 from the Queen Elizabeth College of Nursing in Birmingham and gained a job on a liver unit where her interest in tissue viability (TV) began. Jo became a TV link nurse, a role she carried on into her job as an intensive care nurse. BSc (Hons) in Nursing was completed at BCU, during this time Jo started a critical...
More about JoannaProfessor Steven Jeffery
Consultant Plastic Surgeon
With 40 years service in the British Army, Lt Col Jeffery is very experienced in the diagnosis and management of all aspects of wounding.
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