Advanced Clinical Practice (Advanced Allied Health Practitioner) (MSc)

University of Southampton

Enhance your practice at a global top 100 university and advance your career as an experienced healthcare professional. This programme will enable you to practice with a high level of clinical autonomy in roles that require you to assess, diagnose, treat, and manage the care of people with undifferentiated and/or complex clinical presentations. Through multi-professional learning, you’ll study alongside nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, and other healthcare practitioners. Your learning will be clinically focused and grounded in real-world practice. This particular pathway is suitable for you if you are one of the growing number of UK registered practitioners working in (or towards) a role as an Advanced or Consultant Practitioner within your profession, or a similar role that sits at the interface between your own profession and medicine. Your future career This pathway is accredited by Health Education England's Centre for Advancing Practice. Completion of an HEE accredited programme is a recognised route to Advanced Clinical Practitioner status and reflects a consistent national benchmark of quality. Graduates gain recognised credentials that enhance employability and support progression through NHS bands into senior clinical and leadership roles across the NHS and partner organisations. You’ll graduate ready to lead change, advance practice, and make a measurable impact on patient care and service delivery. Key features of this course Throughout this degree you’ll: Examine role development in relation to advanced clinical practice Explore how to apply evidence to your field of practice and clinical specialty Apply advanced communication and clinical decision-making skills to your professional practice Develop new clinical skills in health assessment, diagnostic reasoning and pharmacology Demonstrate clinical competence through simulated and practice-based assessments Further information Visit our course page for a full list of modules and detailed requirements. QS World University Rankings 2025