Accredited Short Courses
Our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Accredited Short Courses can be studied by healthcare professionals as a stand-alone option or used towards a recognised qualification.
Simply find your perfect course below, then head to How to Apply to a CPD Course for application details.
To build these modules into a formal award, discuss your options with the Personal Development Department.
Fees: All module costs for academic year 2011-2012:
15 Credit module either level 6 or 7 will be £450
30 Credit module either level 6 or 7 will be £900
Double Health Assessment within the Advanced Practice Pathway will be £1600
Supported Learning & Assessment in Practice will be £265
Prescribing from the Community Practitioner Formulary Programme (V150) will be £560
Non-medical Prescribing for Health (V300) will be £1155

- Administration of Anti Cancer Drug Therapies
- Accredited Short Course
- Flexible Short Course Level 6. Offers CATS points towards further academic study at degree level
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Main Features
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- APEL / Advanced Writing Skills
- Accredited Short Course
- Flexible Short Course Level 5
Offers CATS points towards, and preparation for, further academic study at degree/diploma level.
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Main Features
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- Contemporary Clinical Practice in Continence Care
- Accredited Short Course
- The aim of this single module is to enable the practitioner to develop collaborative, problem-solving, clinical reasoning skills and competence in order to meet the complex care needs for patients...

- Debridement
- Accredited Short Course
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Entry Requirements
It is a pre-requisite that the student have successfully completed an educational program in wound management recognized by a UK...

- Dementia Care
- Accredited Short Course
- This module is also available as a stand alone module it can be accessed by the Mental Health Studies, Dimensions in Healthcare and as a short credit bearing course.
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- Diabetes Mellitus
- Accredited Short Course
- This course is suitable for staff who are working with patients with diabetes on a regular basis but not necessarily in a specialist diabetes area.
Key Facts
Location: City...

- End of Life Care
- Accredited Short Course
- The module will reflect core issues indicated by the national End of Life Care Strategy (2008).
Alongside discussion of differing approaches to end of life care, the core elements of assessing...

- Epilepsy Care and Management
- Accredited Short Course
- This is an e-learning module.
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Epilepsy is the most common chronic neurological condition, but is often misinterpreted and misunderstood, largely because...