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Healthcare

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Healthcare is a vital area of study. By enhancing well-being, preventing disease, improving diagnoses, developing new therapies and advancing clinical practice, we can tackle the demands of complex and chronic health conditions.

The University of Reading enjoys international recognition for its expertise in many health and biomedical areas that are making essential contributions to our healthcare-related degree courses. We have a well-established network of clinical partners hosted on campus and regionally, including the Royal Berkshire Hospital and Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust, and together we have established the Thames Valley Clinical Trials Unit to help deliver impactful clinical outcomes from our scientific discoveries. 

You can choose to study healthcare from a variety of perspectives, including psychology, clinical language sciences, biological sciences, chemistry, food and pharmacy. Depending on which programme you select, you will be encouraged to improve our understanding of disease, develop new treatments, investigate the process of emotion, understand language, or study the relationship between the brain and the environment.

You’ll learn from experts in their fields who work collaboratively with other University departments and beyond.

Our graduates have gone on to work for employers such as the NHS, GP practices, community services and the private sector, while others go on to pursue PhD studies.

Centre for Inter-Professional Postgraduate Education and Training (CIPPET)

The Centre for Inter-Professional Postgraduate Education and Training responds to the current and emerging needs of pharmacists and related healthcare workers. This is achieved through the provision of a taught inter-professional programme for prescribing, competency assessment, the advanced community pharmacy services of Medicines Use Review (MUR), and taught, distance or work-based learning support for Continuing Professional Development up to master’s level.

Short courses

CIPPET also offers educational training modules to prepare supplementary prescribing pharmacists to practise as both independent and supplementary prescribers and to meet the standards set by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).

The two short courses we currently offer are:

Looking for postgraduate research opportunities?

Come to Reading for your PhD or professional doctorate and join a talented and diverse community of fellow researchers working to improve lives across the globe.

Courses

Our facilities

We have a range of outstanding facilities that benefit our work in neuroscience, cardiovascular and metabolic research, chemical analysis, and psychological treatments.

There is also a new £50m Health and Life Sciences Building planned at Reading, providing 7,557m2 of lab and teaching space.

I wanted to learn the most up-to-date science from the people who knew the most about it. My lecturers at Reading were also world-class researchers, which meant they were passionate about what they were teaching, and knew how to feed my childhood passion. There was a lightbulb moment in my first year that really drove home that I’d made the right decision. I was sitting in a genetics lecture and I saw how such small things could determine an entire life. What I was studying was complex, fast moving, but vitally important.

Edd Jones
BSc Biological Sciences and MSc Molecular Medicine

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