Don't Delay Study Plans for the NHS; Caring about the Job: There Is a Wide Variety of Health Courses to Choose from New Skills Required: Staff Often Move within the NHS

Byline: SARAH RICHARDSON

AS THE National Health Service celebrates its 60th anniversary thisyear, the career opportunities it offers are growing up, too.

Universities and colleges are offering flexible and specialist courses suitablefor returners, career changers and those already working in the health sectorwho are looking to skill up. And the growth in New Year and spring start datesmeans you don't have to shelve your ambitions until the autumn.

The University of Surrey, for example, still has places available on the Marchintake of its Diploma of Higher Education BSc (Ordinary) Degree in NursingStudies (Adult Nursing).

Both Surrey's degree and diploma programmes lead to professional nurseregistration, and are divided between academic study and practical experience.

The BSc (Hons) Nursing Studies programme has an extended project within …

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Publication information: Article title: Don't Delay Study Plans for the NHS; Caring about the Job: There Is a Wide Variety of Health Courses to Choose from New Skills Required: Staff Often Move within the NHS. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: The Evening Standard (London, England). Publication date: January 8, 2008. Page number: 57. © Not available. COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale Group.

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