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CHCR is part of Buckinghamshire New University – specifically the School of Health Care and Social Work.

In the 2015 rankings, NHS London rated the University’s education in health sector provision:

  • #1 in child nursing
  • #2 in adult nursing
  • #3 in mental health nursing.

One of NHS London’s preferred suppliers, these rankings place the University in the ‘top three’ for all categories in which it offers nursing provision.

The University made further rapid progress in the 2015-16 academic year. Highlights include:

  • Winner – Teaching Excellence category at The Guardian’s University Awards for innovative simulation to enhance nursing and health students’ learning
  • Winner – Partnership of the Year (with Independent Voices) at Student Nursing Times Awards for an initiative to support recruitment and training of student nurses and social workers
  • Launch – new multi-million pound Human Performance, Exercise and Wellbeing Centre
  • Launch – in partnership with Buckinghamshire County Council of the Social Work Academy.

bucks-uni-logoRead more about ‘what happened in Health’ in 2015-16 with Dean and and then CHCR Advisory Board member, Sue West here.

More about the University…

Buckinghamshire New University as a whole has enjoyed a long and successful history. It was founded in 1893.  And it owes its existence - at least in part - to a tax imposed on beer and spirits towards the end of the nineteenth-century!  Today it is a top 10 UK university for graduate employability (HESA 2020) and top 25 for teaching quality (GUG 2020) The University offers an extensive portfolio of courses.  These span the creative and cultural industries; management and information management sectors; and also the public sector including especially health and social care.  There are just over 9000 students (2016). They include 6000 full-time undergraduates. Its principal High Wycombe Campus boasts a new state-of-the-art, award-winning facility.  Known as ‘The Gateway’ (2010), it comprises:
  • Learning resource and technology centre
  • Events hall
  • Gym and sports science laboratory
  • Dance, drama, music and video production studios,
  • Library and meeting rooms.
The University has also completed (2015) major refurbishment of the High Wycombe South Wing and the same year opened its latest (third) campus at Aylesbury. CHCR itself is formally based at the University’s second Uxbridge campus (home to the School of Health Care & Social Work). For most of its course delivery and similar work, CHCR uses the University’s special conference, adult learning and executive education centre at Missenden Abbey, north of High Wycombe.  Missenden has become synonymous with CHCR and its NHS postgraduate certificate in health communications.