School of Health Professions

Welcome to the School of Health Professions
Students using the new Optometry teaching spaces in the Â鶹´«Ã½'s InterCity Place.

About us

The School of Health Professions has something for everyone interested in health and care–related professions.
We offer a unique inter-disciplinary learning environment. You can benefit from excellent skills and research laboratories, research-informed teaching, stimulating practice placements and teaching delivered by professionally registered academic staff.
We are proud of our commitment to student voluntary work, staff-student partnership, strong professional values and our record of student achievement and student satisfaction.

Are you ready to make a life-changing impact on the patients in your care?

We offer a unique inter-disciplinary learning environment. You can benefit from excellent skills and research laboratories, research-informed teaching, stimulating practice placements and teaching delivered by professionally registered academic staff.
  • Three-year courses that lead to registration as a healthcare professional
  • Masters-level programmes
  • Conversion programmes
  • Degree apprenticeships
Student paramedic training
 

Your career as a healthcare professional starts here

The first-class new home for our healthcare teaching and research providing students with skills to meet the needs of 21st century careers.

InterCity Place
InterCity Place

A unique new learning space where undergraduate and postgraduate students from the largest breadth of health disciplines in the South-West learn together under one roof, with expert practitioners.
Medical students using the Anatomage table clinical
Â鶹´«Ã½ Integrative Health and Social Care Education Centre (PIHC)

Experience an interprofessional learning environment across our health programmes that will prepare you for life as a healthcare professional.
First choice for health
Become a healthcare professional of the future

Collaboration across the schools helps students to learn with, from and about each other, gaining the real-world experience employers seek.

The skills you need to be an allied health professional

We worked with on the 2020 Careers in Science and Healthcare campaign. A printed publication is enclosed within every copy of The New Scientist newspaper and the content is also . The campaign featured exclusive content about the importance of the science and healthcare industries from key thought leaders and industry voices – including Professor Sara Demain , Head of School of Health Professions.
Helicopter ambulance paramedic
Podiatry students training in Intercity Place
Explore our state-of-the-art facilities
Student shaking hands with support staff. Hand shake at meeting.
Additional checks and clearance for applicants
Continuing professional development
Continuing professional development opportunities

Â鶹´«Ã½ Institute of Health and Care Research

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Institute of Health and Care Research (PIHR) is a thriving community that conducts adventurous world-leading research with the explicit purpose of improving the health and care of the populations we serve.
Our work is grounded in the needs of the people of the South West and other rural, coastal, and deprived communities worldwide, but PIHR’s research has national and international reach and impact.
Find out more about the work of PIHR