Program Overview

BSc (Hons) Midwifery

Overview

Our midwifery degree provides specialist vocational training and learner support for you to become a fully qualified midwife. You will become skilled in midwifery, learning how to provide compassionate care to birthing parents, newborns, and their families during this significant period in their lives.

Key Details

• Recruiting to: UK / RoI / Settled in UK
• Course Location: Carlisle - Fusehill Street, Lancaster
• Institute: Institute of Health
• UCAS Code: B720
• Delivery Style: In-Person
• Course Duration: Full-time: 3 Years
• Course Start Point: September
• Award: BSc (Hons)

Entry Requirements

• 120-128 UCAS Tariff Points
• GCSE English Language, Mathematics, and Biology or Combined Science at grade 4/C or above
• Functional Skills Level 2 in English and maths and Adult Literacy and Numeracy are also accepted

Tuition Fees

• £9,535 - UK (2025-2026)
• £9,250 - UK (2024-2025)
• £16,400 - International (2024-2025)

Funding

• You may also be eligible for additional funding through the NHS Learning Support Fund
• A Training Grant of £5,000 per academic year
• Parental Support of £2,000, if you have at least one dependent child under 15 years, or under 17 years if registered with special educational needs
• Travel and Dual Accommodation Expenses
• Exceptional Support Fund (Students experiencing financial hardship)

Selection Criteria

• We are unable to accept international applications for this programme
• As part of the application and selection process, we are looking for your commitment to Midwifery
• In your personal statement, you should demonstrate your motivation for choosing Midwifery, and reflect upon any practical experience you have gained
• You must complete and pass a short online assessment

Contextual Admissions

• Going to higher education can transform a person’s life
• We use contextual admissions to make sure that we are accessible to everyone who has the potential to succeed
• Qualifications and grades are important, but they are considered alongside other information that helps universities to identify potential and widen access to university level study

Additional Costs

• There will be some additional costs
• For example, all students will need to purchase stationery and may wish to purchase some text books
• Extra costs may also be applicable to cover field trips, membership fees etc. although such features are usually options within the course

Experience Midwifery at Cumbria

• The Fusehill Street campus has been the setting of life-saving treatments since World War I
• Now, it's home to world changers, life-savers, crime fighters, and entrepreneurs with access to high-quality facilities and innovative thinking
• Lancaster is the Red Rose heartland, a student haven full of history and culture
• With iconic stone architecture, parkland, and a caring community, this is the place to get involved
• The campus houses top-quality facilities tailored to the needs of life-savers, world changers, and future leaders

Course Structure

What you will learn

• This programme will fully prepare you for your future as a midwife, in line with the NMC standards of proficiency for midwives
• You will study the important values highlighted in the NHS Constitution (2015), such as treating people with respect, dignity and compassion, and getting the basics right every time by putting birthing parents and their families first

Year one

• Midwifery Practice 1
• Universal Care 1
• The Midwife as Professional 1
• The Midwife as Scholar 1
• Additional Care 1

Year two

• Midwifery Practice 2
• Universal Care 2
• The Midwife as Professional 2
• The Midwife as Scholar 2
• Additional Care 2
• Part 2 Practice Assessment

Year three

• Midwifery Practice 3
• Physical Assessment and Management of the Newborn
• The Midwife as Scholar 3
• Midwife as Professional 3

Teaching & Assessment

How you will learn

• You will spend 50% of your programme in clinical practice being supervised and assessed by clinical staff
• Placement experience provides opportunities for you to experience pregnancy and childbearing over the full continuum and includes shorter spoke placements offering a variety of experience in areas such as special care baby units, theatres and strengthening family's teams

How you will be assessed

• A range of assessment methods has been selected to enhance your learning and to help you to demonstrate how you have achieved all the module and programme learning outcomes and aims
• Formative and summative assessments are utilised to enable you to progress and build knowledge for practice coherently and logistically

NMC Standards for Proficiency in Clinical Practice

• Our learning and teaching strategies are based on the philosophy that midwives occupy a privileged position within society
• There is a longitudinal practice module each year taking place over multiple placements per year
• All placements in years 1 and 2 are summative and must be passed to progress on to the final year
• All placements must be passed to enable registration with the NMC

What our students say

• Since being qualified, I am honoured to have been awarded ‘Newly Qualified Midwife of the Year’ from the Mama Academy, being nominated by another colleague
• My life is completely changed through retraining
• Advocating for and supporting women through one of the most important milestones in their lives is such an honour

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