This morning MCAST and Vitals Global Healthcare signed an agreement, establishing an additional nursing degree, in collaboration with Northumbria University.

The degree will explicitly meet all of the requirements of the EU Directive for General Nursing; the Malta Council for Nurses and Midwives’ Scope of Professional Practice; and Malta Council for Nurses and Midwives’ Code of Ethics.

MCAST said that within its first years the programme will take in 30 new students per year, where students will receive 3 years of full-time education and training that will result in the achievement of a Bachelor Degree in Nursing Studies at 180 credits.

The first year of the programme will be taught on MCAST facilities, until works to build a state-of-the art nurse skilling facility at the former St Luke’s Medical site are completed.

Northumbria’s nursing programmes are widely considered the best in the United Kingdom and are the first in the country to be accredited by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), in addition to being approved by the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

Present at the signing event were Education Minister, Evarist Bartolo, and Health Minister Chris Fearne, who both welcomed the agreement.

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