Essential textbook to read/purchase: The following books are designed to cover the required knowledge for the latest specification. They are general textbooks that vary in depth according to the topic being covered.

Level 3 AAQ BTEC National in Health and Social Care Extended Certificate Student Book (2025) ISBN:9781292487083

Extended/Wider Reading, including interesting novels relating to Health & Social Care:

All of these are fiction texts that deal with issues related closely to the content of your Health & Social Care course (e.g. the diaries of a junior doctor, dementia, living with a life-changing illness, become attached to your patients as a social worker, life in a psychiatric hospital). 

Books:

1. ‘Regeneration’ – Pat Barker 
2. ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ – Ken Kesey 
3. ‘Faces in the Water’ – Janet Frame 
4. ‘The Bell Jar’ – Sylvia Plath 
5. ‘The Quickening Maze’ – Adam Foulds 
6. ‘Cutting for Stone’ – Abraham Verghese 
7. ‘The Memory of Love’ – Aminatta Forna 
8. ‘The English Patient’ – Michael Ondaatje 
9. ‘Middlemarch’ – George Eliot 
10. ‘The Magic Mountain’ – Thomas Mann 
11. ‘No Child of Mine’ – Susan Lewis 
12. ‘Elizabeth is Missing’ – Emma Healy 
13. ‘The Fault in our Stars’ – John Green 
14. ‘This is Going to Hurt’ – Adam Kay