BSc (Hons) Operating Department Practice

... United Kingdom
... London South Bank University

Course Overview

Doctors and nurses aren’t the only key players in hospitals and healthcare settings: Operating Department Practitioners (ODPs) also play a crucial role. If you’d like to be part of the valuable team helping patients prepare, undergo, and recover from surgery, then this course is for you.

The operating department assists patients throughout their time in whichever healthcare setting they may be in. Gain both expertise and experience with a combination of academic study and clinical practice in a real world environment at our clinical allocation hospitals.

Thanks to our specialist skills and valuable work placements, you’ll graduate with excellent career prospects, as well as the opportunity to become accredited and registered as an ODP with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

General Eligibility

  • A Level BBC or;

  • BTEC National Diploma DMM or;

  • Access to HE qualifications in Nursing or similar with 15 Distinctions and 30 Merits or;

  • Equivalent level 3 qualifications worth 112 UCAS points

  • Applicants must hold 5 GCSEs A-C including Maths, Science and English or equivalent (reformed GCSEs grade 4 or above).

Part Time Work Details

20 hours per week.

Language Requirement

  • If your first language is not English you must have the following minimum International English Language Test Score (IELTS) results at the time of applying:

    • 7.0 overall or equivalent

    • 7.0 in the listening and reading sections

    • 7.0 in the writing and speaking sections.

Programme Information
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Course Category

Healthcare and Nursing


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Campus Name

Southwark


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Course Level

Undergraduate


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Duration

Full-time, 3 years


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Available Intake

September


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IELTS Score

7.0


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Tuition Fees Range

9250,

15900, (INT)


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