Health Innovation and Skills

Coventry University Group drives health innovation and workforce development to strengthen patient care and address critical skills gaps in the healthcare sector.

We collaborate closely with local colleges, NHS trusts, businesses and communities to co-create evidence-based solutions to healthcare challenges, while helping to develop the next generation of healthcare professionals.

Through our health apprenticeships, skills development programmes and initiatives such as the Community Diagnostic Centre, we are ensuring that current and future healthcare workers can deliver better patient care, apply emerging technologies and treatments safely and contribute to more efficient and sustainable health services.

By combining innovation with skills development, we are not only increasing the healthcare workforce but also reducing inequalities and supporting the growth of the health and care sector.

Regional partnerships tackling health inequalities

Professor Andy Hardy, Chief Executive at UHCW NHS Trust and Professor John Latham CBE, Vice-Chancellor of Coventry University Group

Community Diagnostic Centre

Coventry University will be the UK’s first higher education institution co-located in an NHS Community Diagnostic Centre, working alongside University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust to tackle health inequalities and expand access to life-saving diagnostic services.

Arden Cross. Credit: University of Warwick

Central England Health Partnership

The Central England Health Partnership brings together The University of Warwick, Coventry University and five NHS organisations to improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities across Coventry and Warwickshire through academic–NHS collaboration.

Ambulance in a room in the Alison Gingell building

Apprenticeships in Health and Care

Coventry University works closely with employers to design and deliver health apprenticeships that combine academic study with critical workforce skills, enabling apprentices to earn while they learn and directly address workforce needs.

Areas include social work, physiotherapy, public health, dietetics, biomedical science and nursing associate pathways, ensuring employers can develop skilled professionals across the full spectrum of health and care services.

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Health T-Levels

Coventry University, in collaboration with the NHS, is aligning higher and degree apprenticeships with T Levels to provide students at North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College and Wiltshire College and University Centre with a direct pathway into university and healthcare careers.

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Health and Social Care CPD courses

Our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses are designed to develop and enhance the skills and knowledge of the health and social care workforce.

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Facilities

Alison Gingell

Our Alison Gingell Building is a state-of-the-art health and life sciences facility centred on immersive simulation, enabling students to develop clinical, diagnostic and analytical skills and experience in realistic healthcare and laboratory environments.

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