New £5m health and social care training centre to be created in Telford

A new £5million centre for health and social care training is set to be created at the University of Wolverhampton’s Telford Campus.

The new Marches Centre of Excellence in Health, Allied Health and Social Care will provide state-of-the-art training facilities for the next generation of key workers.

The Centre, which has received £3.5m Growth Deal funding from the Marches Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), will enable students to gain hands-on, real-life experience of the profession they will enter and ensure they have the skills and knowledge to benefit employers. 

The project will involve transforming existing space in the Angad Paul Building at the Telford Campus in Priorslee to create new skills and simulation facilities that can be used across health and social care disciplines.

The Centre will proactively address shortfalls in health professionals across the Marches area, with an emphasis on local people and students who will become key workers within the area. 

The new facilities will include a room for paramedic science and other disciplines, a mock house, various teaching spaces and new student social spaces.

There will also be an immersive reality suite for emergency planning and simulations of a variety of clinical and non-clinical settings, interview and mock office environments for social work training and student collaboration spaces.

A new Anamotage Room will be created, following on from the success of similar innovations at the University’s Wolverhampton and Walsall Campus. This will feature a state-of-the-art Anamotage table which allows students to ‘see’ inside the human body.

The first phase of the project will see the development of new academic courses, apprenticeships and Continuous Professional Development (CPD) courses at the Telford Campus from March 2021.