This programme provides newly qualified health care practitioners who have undertaken an advanced diploma as their registering qualification, with the knowledge, understanding, and skills, which facilitate transition from competent to proficient practitioner within a defined health care environment; it enables NHS practitioners to provide evidence for their first Knowledge and Skills Framework gateway (DOH 2004); students may exit with a non-Honours degree or progress to Honours; it aims to help students become critical analytical thinkers with a personal philosophy of life long learning.