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Palliative and End-of-Life Care (Taught)

  • PgCert
  • 1 Years
  • Part-time
  • 22/09/2025
  • Postgraduate
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Course summary

This course is aimed at nursing and allied health professionals providing universal, targeted and specialist palliative care in primary, community or secondary care services as well as those caring for people living with life limiting illnesses across the age spectrum. It provides you with the opportunity to consolidate and enhance your knowledge and understanding of the philosophy, principles and practices of palliative and end of life care.

  • The course is aligned with the NHS England ‘Career pathway, core capabilities and education framework for palliative and end of life care’.

  • It has been developed in partnership with specialist palliative care services across Calderdale and Kirklees.

  • Learning will be focussed upon enhancing your knowledge, behaviours and capabilities required to drive high quality care for people with palliative and end of life care needs, whilst also encompassing the care and support of communities, families and carers in a variety of health and social care settings.

Throughout your studies, emphasis will be placed on person-centred, holistic assessment and the development of muti-professional, multi-agency care and management plans from which optimum and evidence-based palliative and end of life care can be provided. Legal and ethical issues will also be examined within the context of palliative and end of life care and their implications for practice.

Modules

Core modules
Personal and Practice Development

Assessment method

Your module specification/course handbook will provide full details of the assessment criteria applying to your course.

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Main Site

Study options

  • PgCert • Part-time • 1 Years

Start dates

  • 22/09/2025

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Entry requirements

Entry requirements for this course are normally:

  • to be a Health or Social Care Practitioner, registered with a professional body such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) with at least 12 months post-registration employment.
  • to have an honours degree at 2:2 or above, have studied at honours level or can demonstrate appropriate knowledge and skills at honours degree standard. We will consider other qualifications and experience on an individual case basis.
  • to be able to identify a work-based learning supervisor in clinical practice who will support you throughout the duration of the course and verify achievement of the palliative and end of life care capabilities in practice.

English language requirements

If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 6.5 overall with no element lower than 6.0, or equivalent.

Read more about the University’s entry requirements for students outside of the UK on our International Entry Requirements pages. https://hud.ac.uk/international/courses-and-entry-requirements/international-entry-requirements/

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.

Additional fee information

This course may be eligible for funding from NHS England. You must have your employer's support in order to access a funded place. Employers can draw on CPD funding to fund this course. Detailed guidance on such funding arrangements is available in their funding guide.

If you are not eligible for funding, the tuition fee to study this course in 2025/26 entry is £1,480 (Band 2) per 30 credit module.

Tuition fees will cover the cost of your study at the University as well as charges for registration, tuition, supervision and examinations. For more information about funding, fees and finance for UK students, including what your tuition fee covers, please see Fees and finance - https://www.hud.ac.uk/undergraduate/fees-and-finance/. Please note that tuition fees for subsequent years of study may rise in line with inflation (RPI-X).

If you are an EU or international student coming to study at the University of Huddersfield, please visit the International Fees and Finance pages - https://www.hud.ac.uk/international/tuition-fees/ for full details of tuition fees and support available.

Please email the Student Finance Office (mailto:sfo@hud.ac.uk) or call 01484 472210 for more information about fees and finance.

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