NHS Healthcare Sciences - Introduction

In this series we are looking at the Healthcare Sciences, what these careers involve and how you can get into them. Healthcare Sciences covers a range of specialties which can help prevent, treat and diagnose medical conditions.

This episode we are going to introduce you into the Healthcare Sciences.

Thanks to Elaine Jenkins, Head of Standards at The Academy for Healthcare Science, and to Erin Donovan, Healthcare Scientist in a Medical Physics Department.

 
Learn more about Healthcare Sciences:
https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles
https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/healthcare-science

Healthcare Science in more detail across the four UK Nations:
https://heiw.nhs.wales/our-work/healthcare-science-cymru/
https://www.careers.nhs.scot/explore-careers/healthcare-science/
https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/healthcare-scientist
https://www.england.nhs.uk/healthcare-science/what/

Healthcare Science Apprenticeship Routes:
https://heiw.nhs.wales/careers/nhs-wales-careers/education-and-training/on-the-job-training-including-apprenticeships/
https://www.careers.nhs.scot/shape-your-future/become-an-apprentice/
https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/healthcare-scientist#toc-2
https://nshcs.hee.nhs.uk/programmes/apprenticeships/

Further training and registered bodies:
https://www.hcpc-uk.org/
https://assclinsci.org/
https://www.hcstraining.nhs.scot/
https://nshcs.hee.nhs.uk/
https://www.hcstraining.nhs.scot/trainees/clinical-scientist-pre-registration-training/
https://online.hscni.net/partnerships/pathology-network/pathology-career-pathways/
https://heiw.nhs.wales/our-work/healthcare-science-cymru/wales-stp/
https://www.ahcs.ac.uk/

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