Supportive and Palliative Care – MSc/PgDip/PgCert

Palliative care aims to achieve the best quality of life for patients facing life-threatening illness, in addition to treatment for their condition. This includes pain management for the patient and psychological, social and spiritual support for the patient and their family.

The course is ideal for experienced practitioners providing day-to-day care to patients in their homes, hospitals, and nursing homes.

We offer the course by distance learning through our online learning environment, Blackboard. This gives you the flexibility to learn in the way most suited to your personal circumstances.

The course was developed by a multiprofessional team for a multiprofessional workforce. The learning, teaching and assessment strategies reflect the interprofessional working in supportive and palliative care helping develop more effective teamwork. Various professionals contribute to the teaching.

You complete a mix of core and option modules. The option modules allow you to tailor your studies to your needs and area of practice, such as a specialist or more generalist palliative care setting.

You and your employer benefit from the research you implement for your dissertation on a topic of your choice. Study at this level also develops autonomous practice in professionals improving their leadership skills and ability to implement service developments.

An academic supervisor and practice-based mentor will support your dissertation.

Accreditation of previous certificated learningWe encourage the awarding of academic credit for previous certificated study that you may have completed in this area. This means you could be exempt from some modules, gaining your award in a shorter time.

Study individual modules
You can study individual modules from this course and gain academic credit towards a qualification. Visit our continuing professional development website for more information.