PG Certificate in Primary Care

Overview

For primary healthcare practitioners and policymakers looking to gain a qualification in primary care

Learn the skills necessary to engage successfully in changing and strengthening primary care, wherever you are in your healthcare career

Gain an understanding of the principles behind primary care that apply to clinical conditions present in generalist medicine

Develop expert, up-to-date knowledge using cutting-edge technology

Developed in conjunction with the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) and NHSE South West to meet the training needs of both international and UK healthcare professionals.

Course content

The programme aims to provide you with a qualification that evidences advanced clinical primary care practice, together with mastery of the evidence and theories that lie behind modern primary care. You will be provided with the necessary skills to engage successfully in changing and strengthening primary care – wherever you are and at whatever level you decide to operate.

Compulsory modules will cover areas such as the principles of leading change, and designing practical solutions to key issues, for example the tension between accessibility and continuity of care. Modules cover the principles relating to care of individual patients, as well as the care of groups of patients. Content also includes practical experience in the design of clinics, tackling inequality, and making interventions to improve the health of communities, such as prevention and health maintenance.

Youll also choose from a range of optional modules covering change in health services, management in healthcare, education essentials and the principles of supervision, mentoring and coaching.

Careers

Graduates of this course will leave with a career enhancing qualification. Backed by the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan to expand the primary healthcare workforce, they will be able to apply their expert, up to date knowledge to shape and strengthen primary care at local and global levels.

Normally a minimum 2.2 Honours degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline. A personal statement, detailing your reasons for seeking to undertake this subject, will be required. Relevant clinical or professional experience may be taken into consideration as evidence of equivalency. Applicants will be experienced healthcare professionals from any registered healthcare discipline, such as medicine, nursing, midwifery and the allied health professions (including pharmacists and healthcare scientists), or policy makers interested in primary healthcare.