This profile is in support the University of Worcester, of our Health and Social Care Awards 2019 sponsors

THE University of Worcester has created additional places for those wanting to study nursing this September throughout Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and the surrounding areas.

This badly needed development, for which the university has campaigned since 2011, will help the university and its many health and hospital partners educate many more nurses to meet the most acute national shortage for decades. 

Worcester has an outstanding reputation for nursing education and health education generally, and is the only university to be shortlisted five times as Nurse Education Provider of the Year in the Student Nursing Times Awards.

To reflect the new places across the region the university has now renamed its School of Nursing and Midwifery to be the Three Counties School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Professor Sarah Greer, the university’s deputy vice-chancellor, said: “Worcester enjoys an outstanding reputation for top quality, professional and compassionate education in nursing and midwifery education.

We educate outstanding health care professionals, who graduate to serve people throughout the Three Counties, the wider West Midlands and beyond.”

Students at Worcester benefit from well-qualified, creative, highly professional staff who are expert in supporting and educating students who use first class, specialist simulation and skills facilities to support their learning.

The university offers specialist courses in adult, child and mental health nursing, and students spend three years combining academic study with practical skills training, and a minimum of 2,300 hours working in hospitals wards, GP surgeries and community health clinics.

Graduate employment rates are 100 per cent, with Worcester-qualified nurses in high demand throughout Britain and beyond.

Worcester nursing students are frequently offered jobs before they graduate and are spoilt for choice with job offers.

The university works in close co-operation with employers, including NHS trusts in the regions.

With a reputation for the highest quality provision, partnership working and delivery, the university plays a leading role in researching and developing innovative and creative solutions in health and wellbeing, such as establishing the UK’s first Masters in Physician Associates, to help meet the changing needs of the health service.

The university is currently well advanced in working towards the creation of the Three Counties Medical School, which will see it expand its expertise in health care education and provide much-needed training for doctors across these communities.

Professor Greer added: “The launch of the Three Counties Nursing School is a symbol of our commitment to continuing this work to serve the people of this region, but also to supporting healthcare in more rural communities.

"It recognises that our work now extends much wider, providing a workforce for the people of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, and having a far-reaching benefit to society by providing quality nurses and midwives for the future.”

To find out more about a studying nursing at Worcester visit www.worcester.ac.uk