School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery facilities
We provide an excellent study environment for health professionals across our main campus and Clinical Skills Centre at Northern General Hospital.
If you study a professional healthcare course with us, you’ll be based close to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. The hospital is home to the Sheffield Medical School, and is where you’ll find our dedicated Health Sciences Library.
Clinical Skills Centre
Our Clinical Skills Centre, Samuel Fox House, is based at the Northern General Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in the country. The centre contains mock clinical wards, resuscitation suites, simulated theatres and teaching rooms – a perfect facility for training the healthcare professionals of tomorrow.
The facilities have been chosen to reflect what is currently used in the clinical workplace, and provide support for the teaching, learning and assessment of students across the Faculty of Health's pre-registration courses, including Medicine, Nursing, Midwifery and Pharmacy (from 2026).
Samuel Fox House is also where you'll work with our Patients as Educators volunteers, who will support you with your clinical skills practice, and share their real-life experiences of living with a range of health conditions.
We are currently redeveloping these facilities to include a suite of dedicated pharmacy teaching spaces, featuring a large, fully-stocked dispensary, alongside consultation rooms and a community pharmacy counter. Our Pharmacy students will benefit from dedicated teaching rooms to practice your clinical skills, as well as support areas for student self-study. These new facilities are set to open in July 2026.
Speech clinic
Our speech clinic opened in 1993, and is based on-campus. Having an on-site clinic gives students studying speech and language therapy the opportunity to gain practical experience during their studies. The clinic’s observation and treatment rooms will give you the chance to work with children, young people and adults with a range of eating, swallowing and communication difficulties.
Take a virtual tour of our speech clinic:
Orthoptics facilities
We have excellent orthoptic teaching and clinical facilities, which are based across our Mushroom Lane site and the Royal Hallamshire Hospital.
Our relationship with the Royal Hallamshire Hospital eye department means that students get to learn within a state-of-the-art clinical teaching environment. Throughout your studies, you’ll have access to a large range of clinical tests required for orthoptic assessments.
Our optics room is the location for investigations into the nature of light and the teaching of clinical visual optics such as the fundamentals of static and dynamic retinoscopy, the use of slit lamps and focimetry.
The vision science room is a clinical research space equipped with a range of clinical orthoptic tests, as well as an autorefractor, pupilometer, focimeter and a PlusoptiX photorefractor.
The Eye Movement Room is primarily used for research projects. The room houses a high-resolution Eyelink 1000+ eye movement recorder.
