October 2025 Subject Update for Health and Social care | Pearson qualifications

October 2025 Subject Update for Health and Social care

October 2025 Subject Advisor update for BTEC Nationals, Firsts and Tech Award for Health and Social Care

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Welcome to the October update for Health and Social Care. I hope you have settled into the new term. 

In this update there is dates for the January exams. Exciting information about ResultsPlus for the Nationals. There dates for training for the Tech Award. 

New training

Tech Award in Health and Social Care 

There are new training dates for the Tech Award.  There is Marking and Moderation training for both Components in October. 

Book your place

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Tech Award PSA

With the new dates for the release of the PSA, it is important that you ensure that you are using the correct version. 

The PSA released in June 2025 is for the January moderation window and the sample needs to be uploaded to the Learner Work Transfer system by 15 December 2025. 

The PSA released in September 2025 is for the June moderation window and the sample needs to be uploaded to the Learner Work Transfer system by 15 May 2026. 

Key Dates

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Compare external assessment results  

You’ll see a new bar chart on the cohort analysis screen for a given unit, comparing your cohort’s grade distribution to the distribution across all Pearson entries.

Compare your overall qualification results  

You’ll see a new ‘Get cohort grade reports’ tile on the ResultsPlus BTEC landing page when you first log in.
Select your qualification and session and you’ll get a report comparing your students’ overall grades to the distribution across all students registered on that qualification.

This is also available for the Tech Award. 

Results Plus

Exam Timetables for January 2026

Qualifications Subject Exam code Title Unit  Date Time
Nationals Applied Psychology 21331L Psycological Approaches and Applications Unit 1 07/01/2026 PM
Nationals Applied Psychology 21333L Health Psychology Unit 3 15/01/2026 PM
             
First Health and Social care 20544E Human Lifespan Development Unit 1 08/01/2026 AM
First Health and Social Care 20952E Healthy Living Unit 9 12/01/2026 PM
Nationals Health and Social Care 31490H Human Lifespan Development Unit 1 09/01/2026 PM
Nationals Health and Social Care 31491H Working in Health and Social Care Unit 2 12/01/2026 AM
Nationals Health and Social Care 31493H Anatomy and Physiology for Health and Social Care Unit 3 15/01/2026 AM
Nationals Health and Social Care 31494H Enquiries into Current research in Health and Social Care- Pre-release Unit 4 24/11/2025 Window
Nationals Health and Social Care 31494H Enquiries into Current research in Health and Social Care Unit 4 07/01/2026 AM
Tech Award Health and Social Care BHS03/01 Health and Wellbeing Component 3  09/01/2026 PM

Calling all Centres who deliver BTEC Nationals (2016) in Business, IT, Health & Social Care, Applied Law and Sport & Exercise Science

Help us design and shape a new Verification Process - get involved in the Verify Trial

We’d love your help shaping a new Verification Process. Please join us by participating in the Verify Trial, launching this academic year.

Do get in touch if you deliver any of the following BTEC Nationals (2016) 

  • Business
  • IT
  • Health & Social Care
  • Applied Law
  • Sport & Exercise Science

Whether you deliver some, or all the above programmes we want to hear from you. The Verify Trial focuses on providing Centres with a dedicated tool designed to assist in quality assurance processes and to improve accuracy in internal assessments. By taking part, your Centre will benefit from early access to resources aimed at supporting robust and transparent quality assurance, ensuring fairness for all learners.

If your Centre is keen to drive improvement and be part of something exciting, we’d love to hear from you!

Please use the link 

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