Bucks New University makes significant strides in healthcare education
During a period of significant success, Bucks New University has been awarded two new contracts to provide nursing education across London, and to Buckinghamshire and East Berkshire.
From September, the University will become the largest provider of adult nursing training across London following NHS London's announcement of its higher education allocations for the next three years. It will train 320 students in adult nursing for 2012-13, an increase of 23% on its present allocation, and follows a national competitive tender with other leading education providers.
In addition, Bucks New University has been appointed by NHS South of England to provide children's nursing education programmes from September, following NHS South of England's move to tender for pre-registration children's nursing programmes which offer students the specific option to progress to a specialist community public health nursing programme, or neonatal nursing.
Therefore future students embarking on the new children's nursing courses at Bucks will have the additional opportunity to gain specialist training in children's nursing, health visiting or school nursing, all of which are workforces currently being developed and expanded upon across Buckinghamshire and East Berkshire.
Nursing at Bucks
We offer two routes into nursing depending on your circumstances:
Postgraduate Diploma Nursing (Adult or Mental Health)
There are many reasons why Bucks is a fantastic place to study for your degree:
Locality
The Faculty’s pre-qualifying nursing programme is based in the vibrant West London town of Uxbridge, offering you an exciting student experience in specially adapted facilities. Our placements are easily accessible via public transport and are located in close proximity to the campus.
Placements
We offer a variety of clinical placements in a range of settings across West London, including:
• Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
• College Healthcare NHS Trust – Hammersmith Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital
• Ealing Hospital NHS Trust
• Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hopsitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Hillingdon Hospital Foundation Trust
• Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore
• West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
• West London Mental Health NHS Trust
• Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.
Student support whilst on placement
We’re renowned for the support we offer our students whilst they undertake clinical experience. Members of the teaching staff from Bucks are assigned to each clinical area to support students when they are out in practice. Lecturers, in partnership with mentors, visit clinical areas once a week. Since you spend 50 per cent of your time in placement, this support will be integral to your success.
Reputation and quality
Our nursing students are highly respected within the Trusts and clinical areas in which we work. Recent rankings from NHS London have placed us amongst the top three universities in London for nursing since 2009 (when the rankings began), highlighting that there is no better place to start your nursing career than at Bucks New University.
Employability
We have a high rate of employability. In a recent survey, 93 per cent of our graduates were employed as a registered nurse. 57 per cent found employment with the London NHS Trusts that we work in partnership with, 24 per cent work with other NHS Trusts throughout the country and 12 per cent work with a private healthcare provider.
But above all this, we are all working together in a caring, team-focused environment with a passion for what we do.
Contact us for more infromation and to make an application:
email: advice@bucks.ac.uk
phone: 0800 0565 660
Watch our nursing film at Youtube.com/societyandhealth.
