MSc Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting) at Swansea University

Programme overview

The MSc Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting) is a three-year part-time route for registered nurses and midwives that builds on the health visiting PGDip with a dissertation. The PGDip element leads to the recordable qualification of Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Health Visitor and is designed to meet NMC requirements.

Department: School of Health and Social Care | Duration: 3 years part-time | Intake: October | Location: Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

What you will study

The PGDip element covers Community Nursing & Public Health Fundamentals; Contemporary Child and Family Health and Wellbeing in SCPHN Health Visiting Practice; Leading and Advancing SCPHN Practice; Applying Evidence & Research to Transform Community and Public Health Practice; Critical Perspectives on Safeguarding in SCPHN Practice; and Extension of SCPHN Practice. Part 2 is a 60-credit dissertation. Learning is 50% theory at Singleton Park Campus and 50% practice placement.

Career pathways

Graduates gain the recordable qualification of Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Health Visitor; the MSc requires completing the final 60-credit dissertation module, for which additional funding is needed.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Applicants must be a first-level nurse or midwife registered with the NMC with a UK Honours degree; hold a current enhanced DBS disclosure; have an appropriate Health Board host organisation and a suitable practice placement with a current educational audit and a Practice Assessor and Supervisor meeting NMC requirements; have a negotiated secondment; and have secured funding (HEIW-funded places apply only to nurses or midwives working for the NHS in Wales; others must evidence funding). Registration and practice must be maintained in line with The Code. Interviews take place in the summer and the course starts in October. Applications go directly to the Admissions Team.

Domestic applicants: GBP 3,250 a year (2026/27). Year 1 fee, MSc 3 years part-time. Source

Intake: October

Duration: 3 years part-time

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