Coventry University has become the first institution in the UK to have an online nursing degree programme approved, with applications now open to prospective student nurses. In the summer, Health Education England announced that seven universities had signed up to the new “blended learning nursing degree option”, the theoretical component of which will mostly be delivered online. “This is all about harnessing the use of digital technology to create flexible pathways” Lisa Bayliss-Pratt Now Coventry University has become the first in the country to have its new blended undergraduate and postgraduate nursing courses approved, after winning a contract with HEE to both develop and deliver them.