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College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare

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Introduction

The College of Nursing Midwifery and Healthcare's general nursing courses are ranked 2nd in London in the Guardian University Guide 2025*.
Our ever-popular mental health nursing courses are ranked fourth in the UK and number one in London in the Guardian University Guide 2025*.

We are a major provider of nursing, midwifery and healthcare courses in Berkshire and West London.

You can choose from an impressive range of highly-respected pre-registration and post-registration courses where you will benefit from the support of our experienced and passionate staff, as well as excellent facilities which include two fully-equipped simulation centres.

We also offer a selection of continuing professional development courses (CPDs) for healthcare and social work practitioners, developed in close collaboration with our partner NHS Trusts.

Welcome video

Hear from Dr Charmagne Barnes on why UWL is a great choice for your future.

Courses and facilities

Courses

We teach an array of highly respected courses covering various aspects of nursing, midwifery, healthcare and more.

We also offer a selection of Continuing Professional Development courses (CPDs) which are specifically designed for healthcare professionals. 

Nursing, midwifery and healthcare facilities

The first-rate simulation facilities at our West London and Reading campuses play a major role in our innovative approach to teaching and learning.

Lucina, cutting-edge birthing simulator

Lucina, a high tech birthing simulator

Lucina can simulate all stages of delivery.

Simulated patient transfers

A nursing student using a transfer trolley

Gain experience of transferring patients.

The Community Room (West London)

Community room for mental health students

Role-play scenarios in a realistic home setting.

Advanced Life Support (ALS) with Aries

Advanced Life Support (ALS) using Aries

Gain the practical and theoretical knowledge to deliver advanced life support.

Research

Research

Our research, which takes place within the Richard Wells Centre, focuses on infection prevention and control, care home settings, nursing and midwifery education, and dementia.

This video provides an introduction to I-Hydrate, a recent project to research and disseminate best-practice for improving hydrate care amongst older care home residents.

We have received funding from bodies including the National Institute for Health Research, Health Education England (North West London & Thames Valley) and the General Nursing Council Trust.

We offer PhD supervision and professional doctorates in healthcare.

The Richard Wells Research Centre

Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships

As an employer, higher and degree apprenticeships provide a cost-effective way to attract and retain the best employees, while helping you to develop the skills your organisation needs.

Find out more about working with the University of West London as your training provider.

As an apprentice, completing a higher and degree apprenticeships can offer you an accelerated route to gaining both a higher education qualification and significant relevant professional experience.

Explore the range of apprenticeships we offer or see our information for apprenticeship applicants.

Our apprenticeship courses

Explore our degree apprenticeships, which cover a broad range of fields and academic levels to ensure they deliver the skills your business needs.

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Staff

Staff

Executive staff

Fiona Edwards Photo

Fiona Edwards

  • Dean of College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare
See Fiona Edwards' full profile
Claire is wearing a black top and her UWL blue staff lanyard. She has short grey hair and is wearing pink lipstick.

Dr Claire Anderson

  • Dr Claire Anderson - Associate Dean (Berkshire)
See Claire Anderson's full profile

Teaching, administrative and research staff

Professor Dame Elizabeth Anionwu

Professor Dame Elizabeth Nneka Anionwu, DBE, CBE, FRCN, FQNI, PhD is the Emeritus Professor of Nursing at the University of West London.

Read more about her life and work here.

Dame Elizabeth Anionwu

  • More about Professor Dame Elizabeth Anionwu

    Elizabeth is the Emeritus Professor of Nursing at the University of West London. 

    Elizabeth is a qualified nurse and health visitor tutor and has held senior executive roles at various organisations. She was appointed as the first ever UK sickle cell/thalassaemia nurse counsellor and was Head of the Brent Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Information and Screening Centre from 1979 to 1990.

    Elizabeth was a senior lecturer in Community Genetic Counselling at the Institute of Child Health at the University College London, and was the Dean of the School of Adult Nursing Studies and Professor of Nursing at University of West London.

    Elizabeth established and was Head of the Mary Seacole Centre for Nursing Practice, again at University of West London. On her retirement, Elizabeth was honoured with the award of Emeritus Professor of Nursing.

    Elizabeth has had articles published in many journals. She was the co-author of The Politics of Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia (2001),  Open University Press and A Short History of Mary Seacole: a resource for nurse and students (2005) RCN Publishing. 

    Elizabeth was Vice-Chairperson of the successful Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal and is a Patron of the Sickle Cell Society and the Nigerian Nurses Charitable Association UK and Vice-President of Unite/Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association (CPHVA). She is also Honorary Adviser to the Chief Nursing Officer’s Black & Minority Ethnic Advisory Group.  

    Elizabeth was awarded a Damehood in the Queen’s 2017 New Year's Honours List for services to nursing and the Mary Seacole Statue Appeal. Other awards include a CBE in 2001, a Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing (FRCN) in 2004 and being made a Fellow of the Queen’s Nursing Institute (FQNI) in 2017. In 2010 she was inducted into the Nursing Times Nursing Hall of Fame for services to the Development of Nurse-led Services and in 2016 was presented with the Chief Nursing Officers' Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 'Nursing Times' Awards Ceremony.

    In September 2016 Elizabeth published her memoir, Dreams From My Mother (available in paperback or ebook). Further details can be obtained via her website or Facebook page. Read the Nursing Standard's feature of Elizabeth and her life (October 2016).

    Read Elizabeth's Huffington Post blog on the background to the Mary Seacole statue that was unveiled in June 2016 at St Thomas' Hospital.

    Follow Elizabeth on Twitter @EAnionwu or Facebook.

    In this video. Elizabeth asks, 'What can Florence and Mary teach us about nursing today?'

Honoraries

Each year, the University of West London bestows Honorary Masters, Fellows and Doctorates to distinguished individuals, in recognition of their business success, contribution to civic and cultural life, or long-term support for the University’s work.

Here are some of those who have received honorary awards from the College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare.

  • Our honoraries

    • Dame Christine Beasley DBE
    • ​Michael Bellamy
    • Elaine Bowden
    • ​Maria Cann
    • Dr Stephen Chadwick
    • Dr Jean Chapple
    • ​Errol Francis
    • ​Thelma Golding
    • Sandra Hatton
    • Sheila Kitzinger MBE
    • ​Patricia Knight
    • Dr Susan Levan
    • ​Professor Jeremy Levy
    • Professor Clive Loveday
    • Wilma MacPherson
    • Dr Julia Magill-Cuerden
    • ​Annar Neallani Mangalji
    • Professor William Maton-Howarth
    • Ahmet Moustafa
    • Professor Lesley Page
    • Professor Robert Pratt
    • Professor Elizabeth Robb
    • Janice Stevens CBE
    • Professor Paul Thomas
    • Jennie Wilson

Upcoming events

Attend one of our events to find out more about studying a course at the College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses

Franchise courses

Franchise courses

Speak out safely

Speak out safely

The College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare supports the Nursing Times Speak Out Safely campaign. This means we encourage any staff member or student who has a genuine patient safety concern to raise this within the organisation at the earliest opportunity.

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  • More about the 'Speak out safely' campaign

    Patient safety is our prime concern and our staff and students are often best placed to identify where care may be falling below the standard patients deserve.

    In order to ensure high standards continue to be met, we want every member of our staff and to feel able to raise concerns with their line manager, or any student to feel able to raise a concern with their practice learning staff or academic staff. We want everyone in the organisation to feel able to highlight wrongdoing or poor practice when they see it and confident that their concerns will be addressed in a constructive way.

    We promise that where staff and students identify a genuine patient safety concern, we shall not treat them with prejudice and they will not suffer any detriment to their career.

    Instead, we will support them, help them to ensure their concern is fully investigated and, if appropriate, act on their concern. We will also give them feedback about how service providers have responded to the issue they have raised, as soon as possible.

    It is not disloyal to colleagues to raise concerns; it is a duty to our patients.

    Misconduct or malpractice should never be tolerated, while mistakes and poor practice may reveal a colleague needs more training or support, or that we need to change systems or processes. Your concerns will be dealt with in an open and supportive manner because we rely on you to ensure we deliver a safe service and ensure patient safety is not put at risk.

    We also want this organisation to have the confidence to admit to mistakes and to use them as learning opportunities.

    Whether you are a staff member, or a student, please speak up when you feel something is wrong.

    We want you to be able to Speak Out Safely.

    More information about the Speak Out Safely campaign.

Contact us

Contact us

To get in touch with our School, please contact Max Moscardini on 020 8209 2175 or email max.moscardini@uwl.ac.uk.

To contact us about applying for a course, please get in touch with our Admissions team:

  • courses@uwl.ac.uk
  • 0800 036 8888 and select option 2 - free for land line and mobile users
  • +44 (0) 20 8231 2468 for callers from outside the UK.

Disclaimer

* UWL received the rankings listed above when compared to all other universities ranked in the guides / surveys cited.