In this degree, you will be taught how to support individuals to help themselves to better health and wellbeing. You will learn how to support individuals to help themselves to better health and wellbeing. There is a recognised need for a new type of health science practitioner, educated in 'fusion sciences', taking on a role perhaps best described as a Health and Wellbeing Science Practitioner Most importantly, you will be equipped to use leading-edge science and to contribute to improving health services for individual users. There is a recognised need for a new type of health science practitioner, educated in ’fusion sciences’*, to undertake a role perhaps best described as a Health and Wellbeing Science Practitioner. With four fusion sciences* interwoven throughout the programme, this course will give you a breadth of scientific training including high-level consultation skills; a holistic, evidence- and values-based approach to shared decision making; and clinical physiology. You will also develop the knowledge and skills to work with the digital technologies that play an ever-increasing role in supporting health and wellbeing. Equipped with this degree, you could apply for career posts in the NHS, in private practice, in occupational health within industry and commerce, and in wider digital health practice. With further training you could apply for academic posts in universities. The field of practice is opening up, as employers recognise that massive national investment in preventative medicine is unlikely to bear fruit unless there is more support for people to change their lifestyles. Doctors, nurses and allied health practitioners will often identify for patients the ways in which their lifestyle needs to change, and may ‘prescribe’ smoking cessation, weight loss, exercise, dietary changes, etc, but these clinicians may not be able to support change effectively. Often they do not have the time, as emergency care pressures are competing, and they may not have the broad range of skills with which you will be equipped when you graduate. A degree in healthcare science offers you more than the skillset offered by many who set up in unregulated roles as nutritionists, personal trainers or lifestyle coaches. You will be amongst the first to offer employers a university accredited training in high-level consultation skills, scientific training in relevant clinical physiology and behavioural science, as well as digital healthcare.