The Council of Deans of Health represents UK universities engaged in education and research for nursing, midwifery, and allied health, working together to strategically improve healthcare education, research and public health.

The Council of Deans of Health represents the UK’s strategic academic leaders in healthcare education and research. Our membership comprises over 100 university and further education faculties across every region and nation of the United Kingdom. They deliver the overwhelming majority of British-educated nurses, midwives and allied health professionals, the future workforce of the NHS.

At any one time they will be educating around 200,000 current and future health professionals and will carry out research that improves the population’s health and wellbeing. Our members are based in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, and Gibraltar.