The purpose-built Health and Allied Professions (HAP) Centre is home to our world-class teaching, practice, research and scholarship in the Institute of Health and Allied Professions (IHAP).
The 34,000 square foot building features mock hospital wards, consultation and counselling rooms, creative teaching spaces and specialist equipment, providing our students with the knowledge and skills required for a dynamic career in nursing, paramedicine and healthcare.
Our facilities
High-tech classrooms and creative spaces
Classrooms are technologically enabled with the ability to stream across different rooms and floors allowing lecturers to demonstrate complex skills to different groups. The Health and Allied Professions Centre has a range of collaborative spaces for student centred teaching approaches.
The building has also been designed with a range of different social study spaces to enable students to connect with each other, socialise and have practical places to study. The focus on collaborative spaces supports IHAP’s growing research and practice focused innovations.
Hospital wards
Equipped with hospital beds, industry equipment and lifelike patient mannequins which can be robotically controlled using a hand-held device to simulate a range of patient symptoms, illnesses and scenarios you may experience in a real hospital.
Consultation rooms
We have dedicated spaces replicating GP offices and consultation rooms where our students can learn in a variety of scenarios, from allied health and neonatal care to mental health.
Apartment space
Complete with a living room, kitchen area, bedroom and nursery, our apartment recreates a patient’s home and living space, providing the opportunity to explore how care might be delivered in this setting.
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Virtual reality immersive suite
Our VR immersive suite allows users to design 360 degree immersive simulations and role play scenarios. This facility allows you to bring situations to life through sight, sound (and perhaps smells!), which can be made even more immersive through use of mannequins and props.
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Interested in hiring the HAP Centre?
The Health and Allied Professions Centre facilities at both Clifton and Mansfield are available for hire by external businesses or organisations looking to make use of our space for activities such as training, meetings, events and filming opportunities. Prices will be agreed depending on your individual requirements.
The Health and Allied Professions CentreTake a flying video tour
Video Credit: Pick Everard
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Centre for Health and Allied Professions (Mansfield)
In addition to the HAP Centre at the Clifton Campus, our Mansfield Hub located 14 miles north of Nottingham City Centre is home to the Centre for Health and Allied Professions.
The facility offers many of the same facilities as the HAP Centre such as wards, consultation rooms, it’s own VR suite and general purpose rooms.
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The Involvement Group exists to enhance the education of students and apprentices in the department of Health and Allied Professions at NTU studying nursing, nursing associate, paramedicine and public health subjects
Members of the public, patients and people who use health and social care services and their carers/family are invited to volunteer and share their perspectives and experiences
It is hoped that through meaningful involvement with volunteers, our future health professionals will gain a deeper understanding of high quality, compassionate and inclusive healthcare practice
We want this to be a diverse group and actively welcome people from all communities to be involved.
The HAP Centre has been built in line with our Sustainable Construction Policy and is on track to receive its BREEAM Excellent Post Construction Certificate demonstrating its sustainable features. This includes the solar PV array on the building rooftop; the energy efficient air source heat pumps and the mechanical heat recovery system.
Investment into renewable technologies and consideration of all environmental impacts of a new building (e.g. waste management, sustainable transport, biodiversity and water) are a fundamental aspect of NTU’s Reimagined Strategy Embracing Sustainability strand and working towards our Net Zero Carbon targets.