Overview of 2025/26 funding
| Training Pathway | Tuition Fees | Supervision Fee (paid to employer) |
| Advanced Practice MSc Qualification | Full tuition fees paid to the HEI for a period of up to 3 years practice. | £2,500 |
| Advanced Practice Apprenticeship | N/A (paid by the employer through the apprenticeship levy). | £6,000 |
| Top-up modules required to complete a full AP programme of study: | Tuition fees paid to the HEI for named modules as agreed between NHSE and the employer. Modules must be completed within the academic year and must upskill the individual to fully meet the Multi-Professional Advanced Practice Framework. | N/A |
Training grants: A £2,500 per annum, per trainee supervision fee is available for those on a full Advanced Practice MSc that is funded by NHSE London. This offer is to support organisational costs of supporting an Advanced Practice trainee with workplace-based learning, supervision and assessment. For organisations who utilise the apprenticeship levy for funding of programme fees, NHSE’s contribution to employers will be increased to £6,000. This is available for each new and continuing student undertaking a programme of study in the 2025/26 academic year and will be paid to employers after the named individual student has enrolled and started on programme. A data validation exercise will take place between Higher Education Institutions and NHSE to confirm enrolled students have started on programme. Where a student expects their programme to be undertaken for a longer period than three years, the student and employer are advised to contact the faculty to discuss this further, as we cannot guarantee the payment of a supervision fee for longer than a three-year period.
Funding for single modules: Only academic level 7 top-up module requests for conversion of NHSE-funded Post Graduate Diplomas (PGDip) to the full MSc will be funded by NHSE London. Any requests for stand-alone modules that could complete established Advanced Practitioners’ mapping of capabilities against the domains of the Multi-Professional Framework for Advanced Practice would be directed to the national e-Portfolio (Supported) Route process to seek recognition by the Centre of Advancing Practice.
Continuing students: They will be reviewed separately through our monitoring process with HEIs, who will confirm which students are still on their programmes.
Speciality MSc Programmes: Requests for funding of specialty MSc programmes not accredited by the Centre for Advancing Practice will be considered on a case-by-case basis where it is clearly demonstrated that the completion will meet a specific workforce need that cannot be met by NHSE-accredited Advanced Practice programmes. To provide this assurance, the employer will be required to submit a business case or similar outlining the workforce development plan. This should include the speciality training need of the Advanced Practice workforce as well as outlines of job descriptions confirming the roles available to trainees on completion of their speciality programme that fully map to the domains of the Multi-professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice. The employer will also be required to meet with the faculty to discuss this request.
If you have any questions, please refer to the HEE London Advanced Practice handbook in the first instance.
If your question is not answered in the handbook or you would like any additional information, please contact england.acpenquirieslondon@nhs.net
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