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Study in:: Chelmsford; Blended learning
Available as:: Short course
Course features: Develop your specialist knowledge of child and adolescent mental health, focusing on an understanding of how significant the psyche development is on mental health.

Study in:: Blended learning
Available as:: Short course
Course features: Build the knowledge, understanding, and experience you need to be a safe, effective General Practice Assistant. Study part-time over 36 weeks with ARU.

Study in:: Writtle; Blended learning
Available as:: Short course
Course features: Improve patient experience and create a better working environment with our fully funded, part-time course for staff in GP practices. Study part-time over 12 weeks with ARU.

Study in:: Chelmsford; Blended learning; Cambridge
Available as:: Short course
Course features: Make safety and quality of care an essential part of your clinical practice. Improve your ability to continually re-evaluate and enhance care and learning strategies, supporting improvements in acute care practice.

Study in:: Blended learning; Cambridge
Available as:: Short course
Course features: If you're a nurse or other healthcare professional, working in a first contact or emergency care setting, this module will provide you with advanced decision-making skills, theoretical knowledge and advanced practical skills to work autonomously when caring for patients with a minor injury.

Study in:: Chelmsford; Blended learning; Cambridge
Available as:: Short course
Course features: Prepare to prescribe medicines from the British National Formulary (BNF) in your area of competence. With our Non-Medical Prescribing course, you’ll learn to prescribe safely, appropriately and cost-effectively as both an independent and supplementary prescriber.

Study in:: Blended learning; Cambridge
Available as:: Short course
Course features: Gain the knowledge, skills and ability to recognise stroke symptoms and to plan immediate and ongoing interventions and care.

Study in:: Blended learning
Available as:: Short course
Course features: Develop the professional skills you need to care effectively and compassionately for people of any age with diabetes. Learn about the physiology, symptoms and impact of diabetes, the various interventions available and how to manage acute and long-term diabetic complications.

Study in:: Chelmsford; Blended learning; Cambridge
Available as:: Short course
Course features: Develop your knowledge in the field of pathophysiology and diagnostics and your skills in the application of this knowledge in clinical reasoning and management of patients with core clinical conditions.

Study in:: Blended learning; Cambridge
Available as:: Short course
Course features: Enhance your understanding and knowledge of how to care for a patient spanning both the acute and chronic respiratory spectrum. We're the only university in the country to offer a course specific to respiratory and thoracic care.

Study in:: Blended learning
Available as:: Short course
Course features: Deepen your understanding of more complex issues in mental illness. This module will help you to develop specialist knowledge of certain mental health issues, interventions and current affairs in this subject area.