Honours Top-up · Health & Social Care
Build on your health and social care studies. Explore community wellbeing, policy and leadership while developing the analytical, communication and research skills to support your next step.
NCG-awarded honours top-up, with personal guidance from GLP. Confirm your delivery centre and study arrangements.
Build on your care foundations
This Level 6 honours top-up builds on prior learning in health, social care or a related area. Develop knowledge, skills and competencies relevant to different care environments while examining the wider contexts that shape health and wellbeing.
Study five modules over two semesters, exploring research, community strategies, policy, politics, leadership and management. A written dissertation brings together your knowledge and research capabilities through an independent investigation.
Varied assessments support academic and workplace skills, including selecting information, communicating effectively, interpreting numerical data and solving problems. Personal and professional development helps you reflect on your learning and future direction.
Successful completion leads to BA (Hons) Integrated Health, Social Care and Wellbeing. Confirm your delivery centre, current award arrangements and study expectations before applying.
Bring your prior learning forward
Academic entry guidance
The outline lists a BTEC HND in Health and Social Care, a Foundation Degree in Health Care, or a related Level 5 qualification. Admissions confirms subject compatibility, results and recognised prior credits.
Age guidance in the supplied outline
Confirm the minimum age and supporting evidence required for your intended start date and entry route.
The outline requires GCSE Mathematics and English, or equivalent Level 2 Numeracy and Literacy qualifications. Confirm accepted equivalents and any additional entry conditions with admissions.
A suitable FdA can support an application for the top-up. Ask about the required results, recognition of Level 4 and Level 5 credits, and progression arrangements.
Explore the Health, Social Care and Wellbeing FdAYour learning journey
The five-module outline totals 120 Level 6 credits. The 40-credit dissertation provides an opportunity to demonstrate your research and critical understanding alongside four 20-credit subjects.
Credit values follow the published OLC programme handbook. Confirm the current module specification and delivery sequence for your intake.
Module titles, delivery and assessment can change. Confirm the final programme specification for your intake and centre.
Develop your professional judgement
Confirm teaching methods, independent study expectations and support available at your delivery centre.
The outline describes varied assessments that develop academic and workplace skills. Ask for the current module briefs, weighting and dissertation requirements.
Looking beyond the honours degree
Develop a broader understanding of the health and social care sector and transferable skills relevant to different organisations. Your previous qualifications, experience and professional training will influence the roles open to you.
These are possible directions to investigate. Adult nursing, occupational therapy, social work and other professional or specialist roles have separate approved training, experience and registration requirements. This top-up does not itself confer professional registration or guarantee employment.
A 2:2 honours result may support applications to related postgraduate courses. Each programme sets its own entry conditions, which can include subject prerequisites, higher grades, experience, interviews or professional requirements. Admission is not automatic.
These are examples from the supplied outline. Confirm current titles, availability, entry requirements and whether a programme leads to any professional qualification you need.
Plan your next step
Published annual tuition fee
OLC’s current course guide lists this annual fee, subject to its published conditions. Confirm your own delivery centre’s fee, entry year, payment options and any additional costs.
Ask about fees & fundingThe earlier £9,250 figure is not the current fee published in the linked OLC guide. Confirm your individual fee schedule before accepting an offer.
Eligible students may be able to apply for a Tuition Fee Loan and support with living costs. Eligibility depends on your confirmed course and provider, previous study, age, nationality and residency status. Confirm your individual entitlement, including the effect of previous Level 4 and Level 5 study, with Student Finance.
For most courses starting on or after 1 January 2027, applications use Lifelong Learning Entitlement funding. Check the guidance for your start date. Repayment conditions depend on the applicable loan plan.
Confirm your entry route, eligibility, intake availability, modules and current fees with the provider. This page brings together course information and GLP guidance.
OLC Health, Social Care and Wellbeing top-up guide (opens in a new tab)OLC programme specification and handbook (PDF) (opens in a new tab)Student finance eligibility — GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)Funding for courses starting from January 2027 — GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)Your questions, answered
It builds on relevant Level 5 study towards an honours degree. Successful completion leads to BA (Hons) Integrated Health, Social Care and Wellbeing from NCG.
The published programme handbook describes one year of full-time study, with five modules across two semesters. Confirm the arrangements for your delivery centre.
The outline lists a BTEC HND in Health and Social Care, a Foundation Degree in Health Care or a related Level 5 qualification, alongside GCSE or Level 2 English and mathematics. Admissions confirms suitability and recognised credits.
Yes. The programme includes a written dissertation alongside research, community wellbeing strategies, health policy and leadership.
A suitable FdA can support an application. Confirm required results, subject compatibility, credit recognition and available places with admissions.
No. Those professions require separate approved training and registration. The top-up develops academic knowledge and transferable skills and may support further study, subject to each pathway’s requirements.
No. It may support applications, but each programme sets its own academic, professional and experience requirements.
Intakes are to be confirmed. Contact GLP for current start dates, delivery centre and application arrangements.
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