The School of Health & Social Care offers an excellent study environment with spacious teaching accommodation and open-access information technology labs. Plus dedicated laboratories replicate community and home practice environments with computerised mannequins which simulate patients.
The School of Health & Social Care has thousands of students on courses ranging from national vocational qualifications to doctoral degrees.
Centuria South, our £17m sport and health sciences building. The showpiece dental education and sports therapy complex provides a state-of-the-art learning environment for students studying dental nursing and technology and sports therapy.
Children's nursing is about caring for a child, whether healthy or ill. It encompasses the whole family and promotes family-centred care.
We have clinical skills laboratories with four wards and 17 beds with training mannequins, manual handling hoists, delivery beds, cots and midwifery equipment.
The School has been recognised for its excellence in learning and teaching in all subject areas through six academic reviews by the Quality Assurance Agency in collaboration with the Department of Health and relevant professional/statutory bodies.
Social work students make use of our interaction laboratories with cameras, video, sound recording and editing facilities.
Physiotherapy students using our anatomy laboratory which is equipped with examination plinths, anatomical models, skeletons and interactive CD-based teaching software.
The School also has a physiology laboratory with computer controlled exercise treadmill, exercise ergometers, microscopes and blood and gas sampling and analysis equipment.
Radiography students at Teesside were the first in the world to train using a virtual radiography room. Students work in a computer assisted learning environment that accurately and safely simulates the conditions of an X-Ray room.
The School hosts the annual Examination of Newborn conference, aimed at midwives, nurses, health visitors and medical staff.