University modules
We are now offering palliative and end of life care modules in partnership with University of Plymouth at both Level 6 and Level 7 to suit your professional and academic pathway:
The modules are appropriate for health and social care practitioners from a variety of settings and provide the ideal opportunity to share learning through a multi-disciplinary approach.
Level 6 modules can be taken as part of:
- BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Health and Social Care
- BSc (Hons)/BSc Professional Development in End of Life Care
For those who have a degree, but do not want to study at Level 7 you may wish to complete a Graduate Certificate in End of Life Care (all three 20 credit modules) or Graduate Diploma in End of Life Care – all three 20 credit modules plus 60 more pathway specific credits). Please state this on your application form. Click here to find out more.
Level 7 modules can be taken as an optional module on the:
- MSc Advancing Professional Practice (Health and Social Care Professions)
- MSc Advanced Professional Practice (Nursing and Midwifery Professions)
- MSc Advanced Professional Practice (Clinical Practitioner)
- MSc Advancing Professional Practice (Apprenticeship)
Or all three modules at either level can be studied as stand-alone CPD short courses or masterclasses. Please contact education@stlukes-hospice.org for further information.
NEW for 2026
If you wish to study at Level 7 but do not want to complete a full MSc programme, you now have the option to complete a Post Graduate Certificate (Pg Cert) in End of Life Care, by completing all three modules. Please state this on your application form. If you have already completed one or more of the SLH modules on a MSc Advancing Professional Practice programme but do not plan to progress to the full MSc but would like to be awarded a Pg Cert in EoLC level please contact pdu@plymouth.ac.uk to arrange for you to transfer programmes.
Course terms and conditions
