Key Facts
New suite of Access to HE Diplomas for August 2024
Our brand new suite of Access to HE Diplomas is available for delivery from 1st August 2024.
Access to HE Diploma (Health Professions) Overview
Changes to Access to HE confirmed by QAA: Diploma Specification and Grading Scheme
Qualification Summary
The Diploma has a strong emphasis on the skills required of workers in the health service in the 21st century. The mandatory group ensures that learners have a good understanding of underpinning knowledge relevant to the role of any worker within the health professions, including care principles, reflective practice and an introduction to the healthcare system. Learners can select from a range of optional units linked to nursing, midwifery, paramedic or radiography skills which will allow them to focus on a particular area of the health professions. They can then choose to study units around ill health and the role that socio-economic status and life choices have on health. A mandatory unit on care principles shows the importance placed on the subject within the health profession.
Learners must choose from a selection of mandatory and optional ungraded units to support underpinning skills, including a mandatory communication unit, linked to speaking and listening which is a vital skill for any worker within the health professions.
Learners who have followed these routes may not have come from a health or care background, so they may need to refresh/develop their skills in specific areas as well as learning more about subjects in which they have an interest. If the learner has gone straight into employment, they may not have studied at Level 3 and so this Access to HE Diploma will help them to build on existing skills and provide a good grounding for further academic study.
Why choose this qualification?
The Diploma has a strong emphasis on the skills required of workers in the health service in the 21st century. The mandatory group ensures that learners have a good understanding of underpinning knowledge relevant to the role of any worker within the health professions, including care principles, reflective practice and an introduction to the healthcare system. Learners can select from a range of optional units linked to nursing, midwifery, paramedic or radiography skills which will allow them to focus on a particular area of the health professions. They can then choose to study units around ill health and the role that socio-economic status and life choices have on health. A mandatory unit on care principles shows the importance placed on the subject within the health profession.
Learners must choose from a selection of mandatory and optional ungraded units to support underpinning skills, including a mandatory communication unit, linked to speaking and listening which is a vital skill for any worker within the health professions.
Learners who have followed these routes may not have come from a health or care background, so they may need to refresh/develop their skills in specific areas as well as learning more about subjects in which they have an interest. If the learner has gone straight into employment, they may not have studied at Level 3 and so this Access Diploma will help them to build on existing skills and provide a good grounding for further academic study.
