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Allied Health Degrees

Allied health professional roles, all have one thing in common: they play a vital part in treating, rehabilitating and improving the lives of patients.

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We offer incredible clinical simulation facilities and outpatient clinics that emulate a diverse range hospital, community, and clinical settings.


Why study Allied Health?

Your Future

Work towards a career that provides life-changing healthcare.

Replicating Real-Life

Incredible clinical simulation facilities and outpatient clinics on campus.

Practice Makes Practitioners

Prepare for practise in a safe environment before entering the workplace.

Make a Difference

Work towards a career that provides life-changing healthcare.

Allied Health Courses

Occupational Therapy - BSc (Hons)

As an occupational therapist you will enable and empower individuals, communities, and populations to live their best lives at home, at work and everywhere else, helping others to overcome daily challenges, whether learning at school, going to work, playing sport or simply doing the dishes.


Operating Department Practice (ODP) - BSc (Hons)

This course has been designed to equip students with the skills required to deliver the most effective care and up-to-date practice as possible, enabling students to qualify and apply to register as an Operating Department Practitioner with the HCPC.


Physiotherapy - BSc (Hons)

The physiotherapy part-time degree at USW is designed to provide students with the skills and knowledge to flourish as an innovative and autonomous professional across an expansive range of settings within various practice settings.


Why USW?

Guaranteed clinical training on placement under expert supervision

Why USW?

Incredible clinical simulation facilities and outpatient clinics on campus


Study in the heart of Pontypridd

Our Treforest campus is in the heart of the South Wales Valleys, with beautiful scenery and rolling landscape. There’s always something happening or new places to discover.


Operating Department Practice students practising technical skills.

Lecturer, Jonathon Duffin using a dummy in the clinical simulation centre during a practical session with students observing

Three health students practicing CPR on a mannequin in the clinical simulation centre

Occupational therapy student attending to a patient in the community flat at the clinical simulation centre

A student simulating a chest examination on a mannequin in the clinical simualtion centre

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Come and meet us on campus and see what make us special. Discover our facilities, explore the campus and meet academics from your course.

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