Community and Health Sciences

Educating tomorrow’s health professionals

We prepare students for careers that make a real difference to people and their communities.

Our courses lead to academic qualifications and the professional recognition needed for rewarding careers in the NHS and beyond.

Our nurses, midwives, radiographers, speech and language therapists and optometrists benefit from:

• A long-established reputation, specifically as the former St Bartholomew's School of Nursing and Midwifery
• Excellent placement opportunities with some of London and the South East's leading healthcare providers
• Academic tuition from a wide range of specialist lecturers, many in current practice and research-active 
• Superb in-house clinical skills and simulation facilties - preparing our students for working in real clinical environments
• London location - the opportunity to learn and work in one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world
• An excellent graduate employment record - one of the best in the country.

Lifelong learning and Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Our portfolio of CPD programmes and courses provides innovative and professionally focused education and training for those working in health and community-based professions.

Our core objective is to provide relevant solutions that meet both established and evolving needs of professionals and their employers, and which cover both mandatory and optional requirements.

We pride ourselves on our:

• Understanding of the professional pressures and challenges of combining learning with demanding jobs 
• Academic excellence - many of our highly-skilled lecturer-practitioners are at the forefront of their specialisation
• Interprofessional approach, allowing students from different health professions to learn, research and work together.

Flexibility is key to our provision. We want to ensure study can fit around work and personal commitments. Options range from half- to five-day short courses, through to credit-bearing modules, and full BSc Top-Up degrees, MSc and Doctoral programmes, across our unique mix of disciplines:

• Nursing
• Specialist Community Nursing
• Primary Care
• Midwifery
• Health Management
• Clinical Leadership for AHPs
• Radiography/ Radiotherapy
• Public Health
• Food Policy
• Interprofessional Practice
• Language and Communication Science/ Speech and Language Therapy
• Optometry and Visual Science
• Professional Practice

Research

The School has a rich and vibrant research and knowledge transfer culture producing transformational outcomes that have a direct impact on healthcare today as well as in the future.

The School celebrated outstanding results in the RAE 2008 with particularly strong contributions from Nursing and Midwifery (achieving the second highest volume of 4* research in the country); The Centre for Food Policy; Optometry and Visual Science; and Language and Communication Sciences.

Research degrees

We currently support over 100 MPhil/PhD students on range of doctoral research programmes.

The School offers students the opportunity to undertake research degrees in a number of different ways: traditional MPhil/PhD, structured MPhil/PhD, MPhil/PhD by prior publication and MPhil/PhD by prospective publication.