Access to Higher Education Diploma (Health Professions)

Course overview

Tailored for aspiring health professionals, this Access to Higher Education Diploma is perfect for individuals with a passion for the sector but undecided on a specific focus. Whether you aspire to be a midwife, paramedic, or nurse, or another health-related profession, the course will give you the foundation knowledge you need to progress into further study to make your career dreams a reality.

You will engage with a diverse curriculum covering essential topics ranging from human biology to safeguarding to the roles and responsibilities of a health care professional. Additionally, you will develop valuable skills in writing, research, and academic study, which will be vital for the completion of this diploma and your future studies at university level.

Open Study College is pleased to be piloting this new Access to HE Diploma (Health Professions). It has been designed with input from professional bodies and practitioners from the further and higher education sector to help individuals who want to take their first step into a health career, but may not have the right qualifications to do so. It will run alongside the current Access to HE Diplomas that support students wanting to join similar undergraduate courses.

Through the essential content detailed in the Subject Descriptor students, universities and employers can be confident that those completing these new Diplomas will have an understanding of the professional standards and reflective practice required of healthcare professionals, and that they have relevant experience of numeracy skills which can be applied in professional healthcare settings. This should support students in their applications to higher level studies.