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Primary Care Scheme

Location

Mainly Southwark campus, with a range of other continuing professional development opportunities available at the Havering and East London campuses

Duration

1 year full-time, part-time options up to 6 years: MSc/PgDip/PgCert Primary Care, part-time options up to 5 years: MSc/PgDip Primary Care (District Nursing)

Mode of study
Full or part-time or stand alone units

Start date
Usually September, but February intake may be considered in the future

Number of places
30

Simple timetable information
Full-time and part-time days only

How to apply
Direct to LSBU Course Administrator

LSBU Codes

3722 MSc/PgDip Primary Care (District Nursing): full-time

3725 MSc/PgDip Primary Care: full-time

3509 MSc/PgDip/PgCert Primary Care: part-time

3511 MSc/PgDip Primary Care (District Nursing): part-time

3512 Primary Care Stand Alone Units

Course contacts
Sue Boran
Primary Care Scheme Co-ordinator
District Nursing Course Director
sue.boran@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 8448

Rose Stark
Practice Nursing
starkr@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 6757

Non-standard entry requirements

Students will enter with a degree in a related field. Students completing these awards will spend at least part of their working experience in a primary care setting. Many of the units have a practice component and students will need the support of their employer to enable them to meet the practice competencies and be assessed as competent. Some units require students to be registered health care professionals.

Course units

Core units and optional units provide maximum flexibility to address student’s individual learning needs.

Core

– Evidence-based Practice for Primary Care

– Influencing Practice for Service Improvement in Primary Care

– Integrating Study or

– Work-based Project

Unit choice

A wide range of units are available for students to include within their individualised programme of study.


MSc/PgDip Primary Care (District Nursing)
MSc/PgDip/PgCert Primary Care Primary Care Stand Alone Units

Course description

These awards are for nurses and other health care staff working predominantly in primary care settings. This could include delivering care within patient’s homes, general practice, walk-in centres, polyclinics, urgent care centres, intermediate care centres etc. The Primary Care Scheme also offers a Nursing and Midwifery Council accredited Specialist Practice Qualification for District Nursing and V100 Prescribing from the Community Practitioner Formulary, where the principles of the Primary Care Scheme apply but students follow a prescribed pathway.

Career opportunities

The National Health Service is promoting a secondary to primary care shift with more services being provided within a broader range of primary care settings. Working within primary care requires a different set of skills and knowledge to those learned in secondary care. The Primary Care Scheme has been designed to facilitate participants to design programmes of study that are pertinent to their needs and those of the service, recognising that this is a rapidly changing service environment. Students gaining these awards would be equipped to deliver care in a range of primary care settings such as within patient’s homes, general practice, walk-in centres, polyclinics, urgent care centres, and intermediate care centres.

Professional contacts/industry links

The PgDip/MSc Primary Care (District Nursing) is a recordable qualification with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and incorporates the V100 Prescribing from the Community Practitioners Formulary.

Recent guest lecturers

Guest speakers are invited with specialist expertise across the units to support the teaching team, for example practice-based commissioning, diabetes, mental health, service user involvement.

Additional notes

If you would like to apply to study within the scheme please speak to your employer to identify if there is a contract between your employing organisation and the University. If your request to study is supported you will need to complete a nomination form. If a contract arrangement does not exist please contact the scheme administrator 020 7815 8012 for an application form. For more information or to discuss individual course unit requirements, please contact the scheme coordinator