PGDip Enhanced Professional Midwifery Practice at Swansea University

Programme overview

This work-based, modular postgraduate diploma is for qualified, registered and employed midwives. It develops midwifery knowledge, clinical reasoning and decision-making, critical research and analytical skills, and reflective practice with the support of a personal tutor.

Faculty: School of Health and Social Care | Duration: 2 years part time | Intake: September | Location: Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

What you will study

Study is through 30-credit Level 7 modules, including Starting Your Professional Development and Advancing Midwifery Leadership in year 1, with further options on policy, evidence-based practice change, quality improvement, coaching and teaching, clinical supervision and wellbeing.

Career pathways

Successful completion often leads to enhanced professional practice and opens opportunities for career progression within the graduate's chosen area of midwifery practice. Graduates emerge as autonomous, reflective practitioners capable of critical thinking.

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Entry requirements

The course is aimed at graduate midwives who are NMC registered (non-graduate midwives can study the BSc (Hons) Enhanced Professional Practice instead). Clinical experience requirements are individual, though most midwives consolidate their practice as a newly qualified midwife first. Admission for most applicants is based on employer agreement on funding or study leave, and self-funding applicants studying in their own time are also considered. Attendance at a mandatory one-week induction at the start of year one is required. Typical offer 2:2.

Domestic applicants: GBP 3,250 a year (2026/27 (September 2). Year 1 tuition fee, part-time Source

Intake: September

Duration: 2 years part time

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