Midwifery

On this practice-based course, you learn to care for women/birthing people through pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period, conducting at least 40 supervised births. The degree spans 39 weeks each year and prepares you for professional practice through roleplay, scenario-based learning and placement experience. Theory and practice are woven together so you apply the knowledge you learn in the classroom to the clinical skills you are developing.

Course Accreditation/Industry Endorsement

• All our Nursing and Midwifery courses are regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). On successful completion of your course, you can register with the NMC as a midwife.

Facilities and Specialist Equipment

• Access to the latest medical/health equipment and facilities at regional hospitals and community health settings during placements.

• Teaching at Luton campus, a new, fully immersive simulation floor in our STEM Building, preparing you to respond to and manage clinical situations and scenarios.

• Simulation wards with a range of medical-grade training mannequins, including an infant mannequin, to tackle real-life scenarios in a safe and supported environment.

Partnerships and Collaborations

• We work with the following trust partners: Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust; Bedfordshire Hospitals; Milton Keynes Hospital; West Herts Hospital; Lister Hospital.

• To ensure your learning meets the benchmark set for care providers, our healthcare courses have been developed in collaboration with our regional healthcare providers, health authorities, service users and students. We also work with NHS England, East of England and Thames Valley.

Your Student Experience

• Learn to recognise and respond to an expectant mother/person’s needs – physical, psychological, cultural and socio-economic – while supporting the family.

• Your classroom learning is delivered by experienced registered midwifery lecturers.

• We deliver 75% face-to-face teaching so your lecturers are on site to support you while you get to meet and exchange ideas with other healthcare students.

• Midwifery students gain a wider range of expertise through inter-professional learning with other disciplines.

• Explore the wider role of the midwife within primary- and secondary-care settings, and gain experience on non-maternity wards to learn how pregnancy affects - and is affected by - a variety of medical conditions.

• Clinical specialists from our partnership trusts come to campus to support your learning so your studies are underpinned by the latest research and practice.

• Benefit from extra-curricular activities that expand your knowledge base and confidence: our annual student conference is open to all year groups; and we have an active, lively Student Union Midwifery & Apprenticeship Society.

• On placement, you will undertake a mix of early, late, long days and night shifts to ensure you experience typical shift patterns for a healthcare professional.

Areas of study may include:

• Normal childbearing process
• Public Health
• Midwifery practice within the multidisciplinary team
• Acute and emergency midwifery care
• Medical conditions in maternity
• Caring for the compromised neonate
• Women's and family health
• Complex needs and critical care in maternity

Every effort is made to ensure this information is accurate at the point of publication on the UCAS website. For the most up-to-date information, please refer to our website.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Nursing and Midwifery Council