Undergraduate course
BSc (Hons)
Urgent and Emergency Care
Our programme is designed for NMC/HCPC registered healthcare professionals working across various urgent and emergency care settings, equipping you with additional skills and knowledge to meet the growing demand for these essential services.Immersive learning
Enhance your skills in urgent and emergency care through a programme focused on the individual receiving care, regardless of the setting in which it's delivered.
Practical experience
A programme designed to support clinicians working across diverse settings—including emergency departments, community care, minor injury units, general practice, and acute or specialist services.
Shape future healthcare
Focus on delivering urgent and emergency care across all ages, from infants to older adults, in both urban and rural settings.
About
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The increasing pressure to provide urgent and emergency care services requires appropriately qualified clinicians to deliver the right care, in the right place at the right time. Our BSc (Hons) Urgent and Emergency Care programme has been developed for NMC/HCPC registered healthcare professionals who work in urgent and emergency care in a range of settings to enable them to meet this demand.
This course is for you if...
you're looking to advance your practice in critical and intensive care through a patient-centred programme
you want to develop specialist and transferable competences within an e-portfolio
you want a modular design that can be studied full time or part time with the option to complete the award within five years
you want to learn with and from other healthcare professionals and medical students
Details
Programme overview
This programme comprises of three 20 credit core modules and 60 credits in optional modules.
It may be possible to accredit any previous formal certificated learning and informal non-certificated learning, including e-learning as part of the degree pathway by Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). Please see the
Recognition of Prior Learning section of our website for further details.
Please note that if you apply to RPL up to the maximum of 60 credits you will need to achieve the three core modules to be eligible for the award of BSc (Hons) Urgent and Emergency Care.
The modules shown for this course are those currently being studied by our students, or are proposed new modules. Please note that programme structures and individual modules are subject to amendment from time to time as part of the University’s curriculum enrichment programme and in line with changes in the University’s policies and requirements.
Every undergraduate taught course has a detailed programme specification document describing the course aims, the course structure, the teaching and learning methods, the learning outcomes and the rules of assessment.
The following programme specification represents the latest course structure and may be subject to change:
Experience
Previous experience
If you have previously obtained a health related honours degree at 2:2 or above, you are eligible to access the programme via the Graduate Certificate/Diploma route:
- Graduate Certificate: Urgent and Emergency Care (60 credits at degree level)
- Graduate Diploma: Urgent and Emergency Care (120 credits at degree level)
Students seeking to achieve either qualification will be required to achieve the two 20 credit core modules, UEC607 and UEC608.
Applications will be considered individually by the programme team and the PDU.
Meet your lecturers
Mr Ruari Cassidy
Lecturer in Clinical Intercalation
Dr Blair Graham
Lecturer in Urgent & Emergency Care
Dr Sue Linsley
Associate Lecturer
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Careers
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You’ll be equipped with the knowledge and skills to assess, diagnose, treat and manage patients who present with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions, across all sectors of healthcare.
Certain clinicians can also exit as a non-medical prescriber, i.e. nurses, pharmacists and optometrists can become independent and/or supplementary prescribers, whilst radiographers, physiotherapists and podiatrists can become supplementary prescribers.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
Part-time study
The fee for this programme depends on the modules you choose.
For more information, please see the
Faculty of Health professional development module fees .
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Entry requirements
To be eligible for the BSc or BSc (Hons) programme you will need to be either a registered health and social care professional or a health and social care worker in possession of previous study at level 5 (foundation degree /diploma of higher education).
If you wish to undertake the graduate certificate and graduate diploma award pathways you must already hold an honours degree at 2:2 or above in a health or health related subject as well as working in an environment in which end of life care needs are delivered.
If you wish to undertake any clinical skills modules as part of your programme you will need to be working in an environment where you can meet the learning outcomes.
Applicants whose first language is not English must also provide evidence of competence in written and spoken English in accordance with the University’s Admissions Code of Practice – minimum overall International English Language Testing System (IELTS) of 6.5 average with a minimum 5.5 in each category.
RPL:
Claims for credit for prior learning, whether certificated or experiential are accepted and will be assessed following University regulations and faculty procedures.
Claims for credit for prior learning, whether certificated or experiential are accepted and will be assessed following University regulations and faculty procedures.
Extended entry requirements
We welcome applicants with international qualifications. To view other accepted qualifications please refer to our tariff glossary.
To be accepted onto a degree course with us, you must have a suitable English language qualification.
When to apply
Applications for this programme can usually be made throughout the year. Please check the closing date and apply as early as possible as our programmes are popular.
Applying
Please use the Apply button below and return the form to:
What happens after I apply?
You will normally receive a decision on your application within four weeks of us receiving your application. You may be asked to provide additional information, to take part in an interview (which in the case if you are an overseas student may be by telephone or video conference) or you will be sent a decision by letter or email.
If you have a disability and would like further information about the support provided by University of Plymouth, please view our
additional support for students with an impairment, health condition or disability .
Institution code
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Duration
5 years
Course type
Part-time
Study location
Plymouth
Plymouth
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