Health Studies

Course summary

This course covers combined elements of psychology, sociology, biology, nutrition, law, and ethics. Typically, students of Health and Social Care will have a work placement alongside their academic studies, such as placements in a special educational needs setting, residential home, hospital or other care establishments. You can go on to a degree in nursing, midwifery, criminology, youth work, sociology, psychology, social work, social policy, teacher training or an HND in managing health and care services. If you wish to go into employment or onto an apprenticeship straight away, you could work in a registered care home, the voluntary sector, a hospital or primary care trust.