Program Overview

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Midwifery BSc (Hons)

Overview

Our BSc Midwifery course is designed to empower you to become a highly competent midwife, capable of providing exceptional care. You'll learn to recognize and respond effectively to complex situations, ensuring the best possible outcomes for women and newborns.

Study Options

• Full-Time (BSc) at Wheeler, Chester
• Full-Time with Foundation Year (BSc) at Wheeler, Chester

Level

• Undergraduate

UCAS Code

• B720 (Full-Time)
• B72F (Full-Time with Foundation Year)

UCAS Points

• 120 (Full-Time)
• 72 (Full-Time with Foundation Year)

Start Date

• September 2025, September 2026

Duration

• 3 years (Full-Time)
• 4 years (Full-Time with Foundation Year)

Location

• Wheeler, Chester

UK Fees

• £9,535 per year for a full-time course (2025/26)

International Fees

• N/A

Course Summary

Our curriculum prioritizes the development of crucial skills such as resilience, critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and problem-solving. We emphasize evidence-based knowledge, ensuring your practice is grounded in the latest research. We embed authentic assessment throughout the degree, bridging the gap between theory and practice.

Why You'll Love It

• Authentic assessment: Embedded throughout the BSc Midwifery degree to support your understanding and facilitate your ability to link theory to practice.
• Build a deeper level of understanding and knowledge: The Midwifery degree follows a spiral curriculum, where the complexity of knowledge and understanding is developed as you progress through the academic year and levels of study.
• Holistic support to fulfill your potential: You are provided with extensive holistic support to fulfill your personal and academic potential.

What You'll Study

• Foundation Year: Designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills you will need to be successful at university and whilst on a professional and vocational course.
• Year 1: You will study the anatomy and physiology of body systems and pregnancy, and midwifery care available for women and their families.
• Year 2: Your increasing knowledge of the evidence base will continue, with a focus on maternity-related complications and medical disorders in pregnancy and childbirth.
• Year 3: You will develop as an accountable practitioner with the competencies for admission to the professional register.

Modules

• Skills for Midwifery Care: Develops your knowledge and understanding of the skills and care required for universal care in midwifery practice.
• Maternal and Newborn Care (Part 1): Develops your knowledge and understanding of providing safe, effective, individualized, holistic, and evidence-based universal care in midwifery practice.
• Maternal and Newborn Care (Part 2): Develops your knowledge and understanding of public health, health promotion, health protection, and safeguarding strategies underpinning safe, effective, personalized, holistic, and universal evidence-based care in midwifery practice.
• Realizing Professionalism in Midwifery: Develops your knowledge and understanding of professionalism and how this underpins midwifery practice.
• Anatomy and Physiology Applied to the Childbirth Continuum: Develops your knowledge and understanding of anatomy, physiology, and genetic development of the human body from conception onwards.
• Interprofessional Research & Innovation: Develops your understanding of the evidence-based principles of research, service improvement, and innovation in trans-professional practice.
• Emergency Skills for Midwifery Care: Develops your knowledge and understanding of additional skills needed for women, birthing people, neonates, and families during the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods.
• Complexity of Maternal Care (Part 1): Develops your knowledge and understanding of providing safe and effective universal and additional midwifery care through increased complexity.
• Complexity of Maternal Care (Part 2): Develops your knowledge and understanding of health protection strategies underpinning safe and effective universal and additional care through increased complexity.
• Complexity of Newborn Care: Develops your knowledge and understanding of universal and additional care for newborns, and preparation for undertaking the NIPE.
• Numeracy Competency for Registration: Consolidates previous learning related to numeracy, drug calculations, and medicines management.
• Advanced Skills for Midwifery Care: Develops your knowledge and understanding of advancing additional care needs in midwifery practice.
• Critical Perspectives in Maternity Care: Develops your critical knowledge and understanding of providing safe and effective universal and additional midwifery care.
• The Professional, Autonomous, Accountable Midwife: Develops your knowledge and understanding of professionalism and how this underpins midwifery practice.
• Newborn and Infant Physical Examination: Develops your knowledge and skills to effectively undertake and be proficient in conducting the full systematic examination of the newborn.

How You'll Learn

• A blended learning approach combines online and in-person teaching, including lectures, seminars, e-learning, and practice simulation.
• Simulated learning experiences encompass various levels of fidelity, Augmented Reality (AR)/Virtual Reality (VR), and classroom-based learning.
• Creative health resources and arts-based approaches like dance and role play enrich the simulation process, enhancing students' understanding and reflection on clinical practice.

Beyond the Classroom

• You'll spend time out on placement where you'll apply what you have learned to real families experiencing midwifery care in a range of different settings.
• Placements provide genuine experience and insight that will prepare you for your future career.

Entry Requirements

• Home Students:
  • UCAS points: 120
  • GCE A Level: Typical offer - BBC/BBB
  • BTEC: BTEC Extended Diploma at DDM
  • BTEC Diploma: DD
  • T Level: T Level Health - Merit
  • Irish/Scottish Highers: Irish Highers: H3 H3 H3 H3 H4, including H3 Scottish Highers: BBBB
  • International Baccalaureate: 28 points
  • Access requirements: Access to HE Diploma; to include 45 credits at Level 3, 15 of which must be at Distinction and 30 at Merit
  • OCR: OCR National Extended/Diploma: Merit/distinction profile plus GCE A Level
  • Extra Information/General Entry Requirements: Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced and A Level General Studies will be recognised in our offer. We will also consider a combination of A Levels and BTECs/OCRs. Applicants must also have GCSE Grade 4/C or above in English and Maths. We accept Level 2 Key Skills/Functional Skills as an equivalent to GCSE Maths and English. Please note that applicants must also have evidence of recent study within the last five years.
  • Safeguarding/Suitability: All successful candidates who receive an offer of a place for this course and choose the University of Chester as their Firm choice will be required to undergo checks with regards to their suitability to practice.
• International Students: This course is not open to international students.

Fees and Funding

• Home Students: £9,535 per year for a full-time course (2025/26)
• Additional Costs: A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is carried out on all students. Applicants to pre-registration Midwifery are required to subscribe to the DBS update service.
• Bursaries: The University of Chester supports fair access for students who may need additional support through a range of bursaries and scholarships.

Who You'll Learn From

• Fran Clipperton: Senior Lecturer
• Sophie Black: Head of Division
• Sue Roberts: Senior Lecturer
• Rachell Heath: Senior Lecturer
• Suzanne Banford: Deputy Head
• Rachel Tree: Senior Lecturer
• Ellie Kynaston: Senior Lecturer
• Kathryn O'Neill: Senior Lecturer

Where You'll Study

• Wheeler, Chester: Located within the lively city centre of Chester and overlooking the River Dee, Wheeler is home to most courses within Nursing and Midwifery, Health and Social Care, and Law.
• Health and Social Care simulation suite: Our simulation suite emulates diverse healthcare spaces, ranging from a patient's home and community clinic settings to acute care settings.
• On-site library: Our on-site library has a variety of study spaces and IT facilities, in addition to book collections for Health and Medicine, Law and Policing.
• Social spaces: Wheeler's café and coffee shop serves hot and cold drinks, snacks, and delicious meals. Meanwhile, the student common room provides a social, group work, and discussion space for students.

Your Future Career

• Job Prospects: This is an internationally recognized qualification. All graduates become qualified midwifery practitioners, initially practicing in all areas of midwifery, supported by their employers providing preceptorship programmes.
• Careers service: The University has an award-winning Careers and Employability service which provides a variety of employability-enhancing experiences; through the curriculum, through employer contact, tailored group sessions, individual information, advice, and guidance.