Nursing Associate courses in the UK

How to read this list

Every course below leads to eligibility for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), which is what you need before you can work — and use the protected title "Nursing associate" — as a nursing associate in the UK. Approval is the floor, not a ranking: an approved course has been assessed against the regulator's standards, so any of these will qualify you. What differs is the route, the length, where you will be sent on placement and what the university asks for at entry.

All 2 courses follow one route — diploma. That narrows the decision usefully: the choice in front of you is which university and which part of the country, not which kind of programme. Whichever route you take, a large share of the programme is spent on practice placement rather than on campus, so the geography of a course is a real part of the decision.

Every course listed is in England. Registration is UK-wide, so you can qualify here and work anywhere in the UK, but the funding you can claim follows where you study rather than where you are from — see funding.

None of these courses publishes a typical offer in a form this site can cite, so the entry-requirements column is empty throughout. None of these courses carries a UCAS code in the dataset, which usually means direct application to the university. Treat every requirement here as a starting point and confirm it on the university's own page — offers move year to year, and most providers also ask for an occupational health check, an enhanced DBS or equivalent disclosure, and often relevant work experience or a period of observation.