Advanced Health Assessment and Prescribing (PGCert)

Develop your knowledge of advanced health assessment, diagnosis, and independent and supplementary prescribing. This Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) is designed for UK registered nurses, midwives or allied health practitioners (including pharmacists), to train as non-medical prescribers. If you're working towards a specialist or advanced role within clinical practice, this PGCert will advance your clinical skills. You’ll learn how to: make clinical judgements that consider research evidence, expert opinion, the legal/ethical dimensions of practice and the views of the people in your care demonstrate a high level of autonomy in managing risk, complexity and uncertainty in your role as a non-medical prescriber undertake discrete episodes of care delivery for people with differentiated and undifferentiated conditions demonstrate the application of assessment, diagnostic, therapeutic, problem-solving and decision-making skills within your role as a non-medical prescriber This pathway wil

IELTS: overall 6.5; reading 6.0; writing 6.0; speaking 6.0; listening 6.0

UK students: £5,400 per year

UK/Home: £5,400 per year

September 2026

Application deadlines UK students The deadline to apply for this course is midday UK time.

• Highfield, Southampton, United Kingdom