Name: Urgent Medical Care Course (UMeCC), Short Course
Price: 900 per course GBP

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This course is designed for professionals working in urgent or non-scheduled care who need to enhance forward care by starting pathways for the emergency patient.

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Award: Short course
Study Mode: Part-time
Duration: 10-12 weeks (online and a two-day scenario-based campus programme)
Campus: Westlakes

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Start dates
Course start date	Application deadline	Introductory webinar	Scenario-based teaching block at Westlakes Campus
October 2025	Thursday 16 October 2025	Thursday 23 October 2025 4pm - 5pm	Thursday 15 January - Friday 16 January 2026 9am - 5pm
March 2026	Thursday 5 March 2026	Thursday 12 March 2026 4pm - 5pm	Monday 8 June - Tuesday 9 June 2026 9am - 5pm

Course dates for the 2026-27 academic year will be added in late May 2026.

Course overview

The course is designed for professionals working in urgent or non-scheduled care. This maybe a stand-alone type 3 emergency department, urgent care centre, out-of-hours or same-day primary care access hub. It can just as easily be a GP working in a remote region or a medical team supporting other pursuits such as mountain medicine, expedition medicine and medicine relating to extreme sports.

Urgent care, by its very nature, can be daunting as it is sometimes difficult to differentiate between the urgent patient and the emergency patient until they are treated. Therefore, the healthcare professional working in urgent care should be able to deal with urgent care needs and enhance forward care by starting pathways for the emergency patient.

The value of such care models has been widely recognised by both patients and health systems as a positive move. Care closer to home is a clear strategy to reduce costly secondary care and more importantly allows capacity in the secondary care system to effectively treat those that need specialist care. However, urgent care should never disadvantage the patient for not attending secondary care in the first place, it should if anything enhance the care the patient receives.

This course is an interactive course offering both lectures and scenario learning. It has been designed to give you an insight and firm grounding in the area of urgent medical care; to deliver to very best care to your patients by understanding their needs and the latest treatment options. The course uses a range of teaching techniques, from lectures to seminar case-based discussions, to prepare the candidate for the urgent care setting.

The teaching team come from wide and varied backgrounds from the military to the NHS, they include paramedics, nurses and doctors.

The make-up of the teaching team reflects the course which is open to a multidisciplinary candidate base and as such there is no lead profession. Students can share their skills with other team members, with important leadership skills being gained by all.

The programme will provide a toolkit for the healthcare professional providing urgent care to enhance forward care by starting pathways for the emergency patient.

Subjects covered in course and pre-reading:

Urgent care overview
Sepsis
Chest pain including ECG basics
Diabetes
Respiratory illness
Walking wounded - “I didn’t expect this to walk in”
Working with community hospitals
Mental Health
Paediatrics, “Spotting the sick child”
ENT
Ophthalmology
Remote consulting technology
Major incidents
Palliative Care

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Entry requirements

Nursing: Band 7 or above injury/illness, prescriber
Paramedic: Band 6 CCP/ECP
Doctor: ST 2 or above

Applications are welcomed from Allied Health Professionals and candidates with non-standard qualifications. Please email our team to discuss this further.

Fees and funding

2024/25

Blended part-time900 per course

2025/26

Blended part-time1056 per course

The course is taught online, with a two-day on-campus programme.

The course starts with an introductory webinar and then continues online. Finishing around 10 weeks later with a two-day scenario-based seminar block at our Westlakes Campus in Whitehaven.

We use a range of teaching techniques, both on and offline, from lectures to round-table case-scenario discussions. The teaching team come from varied backgrounds from the military to the NHS, they include paramedics, nurses and doctors.

Teaching takes place at the National Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine (NCRRM) at our Westlakes Campus. The Centre trains professionals to deliver healthcare at a gold standard regardless of their environment or location. We use innovative training and technology techniques. Rural medicine has been under-served for many years. The Centre aims to provide a focus on remote and rural medical education. As well as research in collaboration with colleagues globally.

The course is taught at the National Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine, by a team led by Dr Stuart Maitland-Knibb.

Stuart is an ex-military medical officer with extensive experience in primary care & emergency medicine both in hospital and pre-hospital. Specialising in urgent unplanned care, he has worked in the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) and pre-hospital settings for many years and continues to fly a day a week in a Clinical Supervisor position.

A responder for BASICS, Stuart is also an Examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for the Dip IMC and FIMC. He remains a medical officer for UK International Search and Rescue.

The teaching team come from wide and varied backgrounds from the military to the NHS, they include paramedics, nurses and doctors.

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