Health Education England (HEE) have commissioned the University of Manchester to develop a flexible Clinical Data Science Programme in collaboration with the National School of Healthcare Science and clinical partners at The Christie Hospital, to support NHS long term workforce development plans.
The programme will begin in the academic year beginning September 2023. Health Education England will fully fund a significant number of places on the PG Cert. HEE-funded places are open to staff working in, or delivering services to, the NHS in England. Applications for funded places are open until April 23, 2023. Go to the application form for HEE-funded places.
Aim and audience
The Clinical Data Science Programme aims to empower healthcare professionals from across the health and social care workforce, from Knowledge and Library Specialists to nurses, AHPs, healthcare scientists, doctors and beyond, to apply data science in practice and translate data into patient benefit. This educational programme will support the development of data science, statistics, machine learning, and programming capabilities across the healthcare workforce, leading to a 60 credit postgraduate qualification in Clinical Data Science. Click this link to view the University of Manchester’s detailed guide to the programme.
The Clinical Data Science Programme does not aim to train healthcare professional to become data scientists. It will give professionals across the board the opportunity to develop their data science skills and drive digital transformation in their practice. Participants will bring with them their clinical, health and social care knowledge and experience, and the programme will provide the computer science methods and maths, stats and machine learning skills to allow practitioners to make use of their data, adding value to their clinical work to benefit patients.
A key aim of the Clinical Data Science Programme is aligned to the NHS Constitution: patient benefit is at the core of the design of this programme, and the data science skills that healthcare professionals will gain through it will enhance their ability to work better together for the benefit of patients.
If you would like to find out more about the development of this programme, you can also contact the programme’s Project Manager, Andreea Chirvase on andreea.chirvase@hee.nhs.uk.