Health and Social Care

As new career pathways in healthcare open up, professionals from a wide variety of medical, nursing, midwifery, health visiting and allied health backgrounds are increasingly taking on higher-level, demanding roles and offering leadership to others. The Open University’s Faculty of Health & Social Care offers a range of advanced health and social care courses at postgraduate level to help you rise to the challenge.

Our suite of awards in Advancing Healthcare Practice will introduce you to change as a recurring theme. The staged awards – a Certificate, Diploma and MSc – are each health and social care qualifications in their own right. You can step off at any point, or study the whole programme. Each award will increasingly improve your practice; develop your study and research skills; advance your knowledge, understanding, personal, professional and inter-professional insights; and help you become a successful agent for change. You’ll also be better placed to seize career opportunities associated with leadership and practice development roles in healthcare. Along with our health and social care courses, you may also be interested in the MSc and Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Physics (hosted by the Science faculty) which focus in particular on medical imaging and the physics of radiotherapy.

Browse this website and discover the wide variety of postgraduate courses in health and social care, designed to help you work towards the qualification of your choice.