Advanced practice education contracts

• The five suppliers that won the most advanced practice education contracts took 23% of them (20 of 89).
• Contracts awarded per quarter held steady across the period.
• The median contract, £50k, is close to the median across education & training contracts (£54k).
• London had the most contracts: 39, or 44% of the total.

1. 1NHS England38 contracts£71.9m
2. 2Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust14 contracts£1.3m
3. 3Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust6 contracts£78k
4. 4Public Services Delivery Scotland4 contracts£1.3m
5. 5Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust4 contracts£205k
6. 6Health Education and Improvement Wales3 contracts£16.2m
7. 7Whittington Health NHS Trust3 contracts£255k
8. 8Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£95k
9. 9NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership2 contracts£520k
10. 10Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts£47k

1. 1University of Manchester5 contracts£41.7m
2. 2Cardiff University4 contracts£558k
3. 3Birmingham City University4 contracts£355k
4. 4Northumbria University4 contracts£47k
5. 5Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust3 contracts£69k
6. 6University of Plymouth2 contracts£1.2m
7. 7Anglia Ruskin University2 contracts£820k
8. 8City St George's, University of London2 contracts£719k
9. 9University of Birmingham2 contracts£563k
10. 10University of South Wales2 contracts£340k

Latest

• Professional and Generic Skills Programme (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.1m

  NHS England to University of Plymouth · Awarded 29 September 2026

• C469199 - Attendances at a Critical Care Course (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £23k

  Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · Awarded 23 September 2026

• Master’s Level Paediatric Audiology Modules (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £120k

  NHS England to Anglia Ruskin University, University of Manchester and University of Southampton · Awarded 22 September 2026

• Return to Practice Test of Competence Preparation Programme (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £4.8m

  NHS England to NHS PROFESSIONALS LIMITED · Awarded 27 August 2026

• Masters in Public Health (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £248k

  NHS England to University of Birmingham · Awarded 21 August 2026

• CPD Courses 26/27 University of Hertfordshire (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £15k

  Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust to University of Hertfordshire · Awarded 20 August 2026

• Tissue Viability Course Fees (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £16k

  Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust to Birmingham City University · Awarded 19 August 2026

• CPD Courses 26/27 Cardiff University (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £20k

  Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust to Cardiff University · Awarded 19 August 2026

• General Practice Assistance Accredited Education Route 2026 - RFI (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £11.8m

  NHS England to PRIMARY CARE WORKFORCE ACADEMY COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY · Awarded 18 August 2026

• MSc fees for London Public Health trainees (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £12k

  NHS England to University of Manchester · Awarded 7 August 2026

Largest

• Developing Adaptable Pharmacy Professionals through Training and Education (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £49.5m

  NHS England to University of Manchester · Awarded 19 February 2026

• HEIW Provision of Enhanced and Advanced Education and Training (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £16.0m

  Health Education and Improvement Wales to Bangor University, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff University, Learna Limited and University of South Wales · Awarded 28 May 2026

• THE PROVISION OF TRI-SERVICE MEDICAL PERSONNEL TRAINING TO HEALTH AND CARE PROFESSIONS COUNCIL PARAMEDIC STANDARD (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £4.5m

  Ministry of Defence to University of Central Lancashire · Awarded 12 February 2026

• Grad Dip in Respiratory Sc. & PG-Cert in Sleep Medicine (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £875k

  NHS England to Sheffield Hallam University and University of the West of England Higher Education Corporation · Awarded 23 April 2026

• Med Ed HEE Funded - CPD Courses 26/27 Anglia Ruskin University (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £700k

  Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust to Anglia Ruskin University · Awarded 19 June 2026

University and HE partner education commissioned for the health and social work workforce: pre-registration and trainee programmes including Step Up to Social Work, foundation training and return to practice, and post-registration postgraduate certificates, modules, master's, advanced practice and psychological therapy programmes.

• Pre-registration allied health programmes (orthoptics, prosthetics and orthotics)
• Trainee nursing associate education
• Pre-registration trainee pharmacy technician diplomas
• Dental therapist foundation training
• Return to practice programmes
• Accredited general practice assistant programmes
• Cytology screener training
• Postgraduate certificates such as Clinical Echocardiography
• Advanced practice education for imaging and cancer workforces
• Postgraduate modules such as perinatal mental health
• Psychological therapy practitioner training and postgraduate mental health therapies education
• Master's programmes such as genomic medicine and MSc Public Health for trainees
• Specialist nursing programmes such as critical care
• University CPD courses for NHS staff
• Restorative clinical supervision training for Professional Midwifery Advocates
• Step Up to Social Work and other fast-track social work qualifying programmes
• Non-medical prescribing programmes (not yet seen)

• Short non-credit clinical training (edu.care.clinical-skills-simulation-and-patient-safety-training)
• Placement and practice education funding (edu.he.clinical-placements-and-practice-education)
• Health and clinical apprenticeships (edu.appr.health-care-apprenticeships, edu.appr.professional-degree-apprenticeships)
• Care qualifications (edu.care.social-care-workforce-training-and-qualifications)
• Social work practice training such as PEPS, BIA and ASYE (edu.care.social-work-and-childrens-practice-training)
• Degrees for staff outside the health professions (edu.he.university-degrees-and-cpd-for-staff)
• HEE awards that name no programme (edu.he.commissioned-education-unspecified)
• Assessment centres and recruitment for training programmes (another industry: recruitment-hr)

• Clinical placements
• Executive education

• Camhs tier 4
• Patient administration system