Clinical Skills Centre

The Clinical Skills Centre is used by students taking degrees in:

• Advanced Clinical Practice
• Clinical Research
• Dentistry
• Health and Clinical Research Delivery
• Medical Education
• Medicine
• Midwifery
• Nursing
• Orthoptics
• Pharmacy (from 2026)
• Physician Associates Studies

The centre is also used by doctors and dentists taking part in clinical academic training. 

Our facilities

The facilities have been designed to reflect what is currently used in the clinical workplace, and provide support for the teaching, learning and assessment of our students in a variety of clinical and simulated settings. 

Medics practising CPR on a manikin

A clinical skills session with our Patients as Educators volunteers

Patients as Educators volunteers help Nursing student with their communication skills

High-tech simulation manikins are used for teaching

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The space on each of the floors has been carefully designed to follow the General Medical Council’s recommendations and provides the best support for the teaching, assessments and learning opportunities for healthcare students in a variety of clinical and simulated settings.

A range of high-fidelity simulators are available within the centre along with audio visual recording equipment at 24 bed spaces to enable feedback and reflection on students’ performances.

As a student who had never worked on a ward before starting this course, the University’s Clinical Skills Centre at Samuel Fox House was such a great facility. To have an environment that is set up like a ward area where I could practice my skills and enhance my learning really prepared me for going into practice.

Racquel Ward

BMedSci Nursing (Adult) graduate

The centre is based over three floors:

Ground floor

• Teaching rooms
• Teaching rooms
• Reception for Patients as Educators

First floor

• Ward areas: Three simulated wards containing four of five bed spaces per room. Each space is equipped with bedhead trunking, electronic tilting beds and piped air. There is also an observation/control room between ward two and three.
• Simulated home: A great facility for occupational therapy practice. The home is used to give students an insight into the practicalities of caring for patients within their own home environment. The flat comprises of a kitchen, living area and simulated bathroom.
• Resuscitation monitoring suite, simulated theatre and treatment bay: These are all multi-functional rooms where we provide a range of skills including: basic surgical skills, basic and in hospital life support and infection control.
• Filming studio: Large studio equipped with state of the art visual and audio equipment, green screen and lighting equipment - the studio is used for recording patient stories and making other educational videos.
• Atrium: Light and airy open space with drinks and snacks machines and a large balcony for general relaxation and informal meetings.

Second floor

• Two multi-purpose ward areas: With full bedhead trunking, examination couches and piped oxygen.
• Self-directed individual skills rooms equipped for: Cardiac monitoring, catheterisation suites (male and female), a respiratory function suite and an urinalysis suite. Students can book these rooms to practice clinical skills outside of teaching sessions.
• Two seminar/ lecture rooms: With full audio visual presentation equipment (seating 60 and 25 people) 

Take a virtual tour of our Clinical Skills Centre

Our teaching 

Within the centre we have a team of highly experienced staff from a range of healthcare backgrounds to facilitate and deliver the teaching and practice sessions for our students and external trainees.

Students attend timetabled sessions but are also encouraged to use designated clinical skills rooms for self-directed learning.