Our Purpose | Health Sciences University
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Our purpose

Transforming lives through health sciences

 

Our mission, vision and community focus

Our mission, vision and community focus articulate our position as a specialist health sciences institution. Discover more about our community partnerships, access and participation projects and upcoming events; promoting and sharing our knowledge of health sciences.

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Mission & Vision

Our mission is to ‘create a healthier society through education, research and clinical care’.

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Community & Partners

We foster positive relationships with universities, funding bodies, governments, student associations, businesses and communities.

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The Centre for Workforce and Systems Innovation

The Centre for Workforce and Systems Innovation aims to drive positive change in healthcare systems.

We drive change by supporting workforce transformation, promoting knowledge exchange, and offering comprehensive professional development programs for healthcare professionals, healthcare educators, healthcare leaders and policymakers.

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SPaCE

SPaCE is a group of patients and carers from our local community who are interested in improving healthcare, for ourselves and for others.

SPaCE stands for Sharing Patient and Community Experience. If you would like to get involved please complete the form at the bottom of this page. We’d love to hear about your experiences.

Latest News

Discover and read all the latest news, press releases and happenings here at Health Sciences University.

From Left to Right Clive Hayter (University of Chichester), Julie Northam (Health Sciences University), Dan Cox (Arts University Bournemouth), Francesca Pieropan (Southampton Solent University), Jo Stark (University of Winchester), Louise Farrand (University of Portsmouth) Credit: University of Portsmouth

Health Sciences University (HSU) joins other universities across the South including the University of Portsmouth, Southampton Solent University, the University of Chichester, Arts University Bournemouth and the University of Winchester, to create a Shared Virtual Technology Transfer Office (SV-TTO) - a first-of-its-kind collaboration for the Wessex region. 

Ben Samways

HSU graduate Ben Samways studied BSc (Hons) Sport, Exercise and Health Science before progressing into strength and conditioning with an MSc at Bournemouth University.

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