University of Glasgow Nursing & Health Care School

The School has offered a degree course in Nursing since 1977, introduced under the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the time, Professor Edward McGirr.

[2] One such Glasgow alumna was Isabel MacPhail: when war broke in 1914, she and her sister Katherine went to Serbia to work in the Scottish Women’s Hospital.

A petition received over 900 signatories and the Royal College of Nursing spoke in favour of keeping the School open.

The aim of the programme is to develop critical, analytical and innovation skills, as well as leadership, research, teaching, and clinical competencies.

The McGirr Prize is awarded to the most distinguished graduate of the year in the Bachelor of Nursing Degree.

In March 2020, student nurses and midwives in year 2 onwards could ‘opt in’ to a revised programme structure of extended paid placements to support the workforce during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Allocations of placements remained the responsibility of universities in line with Nursing and Midwifery Council emergency standards to ensure they achieved programme outcomes.