Undergraduate education for Health Professionals

Undergraduate healthcare education can be separated into two distinct groups; pre-registration education and health care support worker/assistant practitioner education (education levels 2 to 4).

HEIW policy on practise-based learning expenses for pre-registration commissioned healthcare programmes 

This revised HEIW policy document (April 2026) details travel, accommodation and related expenses that students can claim when undertaking the practice-based learning component of commissioned nursing, midwifery, allied health, healthcare science, physician associate and dental hygiene and therapy programmes.