A new "high-quality" training hospital ward, built for learners to gain experience in a real life medical setting, has opened at Crewe's Cheshire College – South & West's campus.

The college was one of the few educational providers in the North West awarded funding under the Government's Strategic Development Fund (SDF), resulting in an investment of £150,000 into the new training ward.

New training facilities include an eight-bed replica hospital ward on campus, cutting-edge dental simulation equipment, digital reality programmes, tactile models, life-like mannequins, virtual dissection tables and specialist teaching staff. 

The Crewe hospital ward aims to equip students with the skills to better meet the needs of their future employers.

Facilities are now open within the Crewe college campus' health and social care department (Ryan Parker).

It also aims to support local innovation, jobs, and economic growth as well as develop a more efficient overall delivery infrastructure within the College itself.

Facilities are now open within the Crewe campus' health and social care department.

Use of them will be offered to students working towards careers in nursing, life science, dentistry, healthcare and education, to name a few. 

Assistant principal, Karen Roberts, said: "From our close relationship with employers, we know the best talents come from when students can experience what it's really like to be in a work setting.

"There's no better place to do this for those pursuing a career in the medical or healthcare field, than in a ward itself.

Assistant principal at Cheshire College - South & West, Karen Roberts (Cheshire College - South & West).

"This new high-quality learning experience will give our pupils the perfect start to their career journey.

"They will venture into further education, or into work, with transferrable, 'hands on' skills attained at Cheshire College.

"It's amazing what we've been able to achieve here with the investment, it really brings the curriculum alive."

Learners will be able to engage with responsive mannequins to measure blood pressure, heart rate and simulate engaging with a patient in a ward setting.

They will also be taught to check pulses and can monitor virtual procedures thanks to cutting edge digital equipment provided by the college.

Learners will be able to engage with responsive mannequins to measure blood pressure, heart rate and simulate engaging with a patient in a ward setting (Cheshire College - South & West).

Dentistry students can experiment with onsite simulation equipment to begin to understand and attain the skills they will need for their future working life.

Local organisations that work with the college have already expressed interest in using the facilities to train their own members of staff.

Many of the students using the new medical facilities will be studying T Level qualifications.

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