PgC/PgD Advancing Practice

These programs have been designed to facilitate your development and the demonstration of knowledge, skills, and competencies required to work at an advanced level within your own professional setting.

You will receive support to cultivate a critical awareness of current challenges and emerging insights at the forefront of your professional practice. You will analyze care development and delivery from your professional perspective and consider how other disciplines both challenge and contribute to the quality of care delivery.

The PgC Advancing Practice offers you the opportunity to critically explore the Advanced Practice agenda in healthcare. There will be a particular emphasis on leadership skills, complemented by modules designed to enhance knowledge and skills in assessment/examination, clinical reasoning, and decision-making.

120 credits at honours academic level or show an ability to work successfully at Masters level

No less than two years post registration experience, with no less than six months experience in the relevant clinical speciality

Access to relevant area of clinical practice with support of your organisation on their advancing role

Current registration with the relevant regulatory body e.g. NMC, HCPC

If you have previously studied at higher education level before you may be able to transfer credits to a related course at the University of Suffolk and reduce the period of study time necessary to achieve your degree.

IELTS 6.0 overall (no component below 5.5) — standard University of Suffolk requirement

September 2027

No fixed deadline — apply as early as possible via the University's direct application portal.

• Ipswich, United Kingdom