What is a healthcare scientist (HCS)?
Healthcare scientists are qualified and regulated health professionals – who are a highly diverse scientific workforce improving health and wellbeing of patients.
They are one of the key Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) in the NHS.
It is a community of dedicated scientific colleagues help to inform, and underpin around 80% of all diagnoses – making up around 5% of the entire NHS workforce. They include:
- Audiologist
- Biomedical scientist
- Biomedical scientist specialist
- Laboratory assistant
- Pharmacist
- Pharmacist specialist
- Pharmacy technician
- Phlebotomist.
Healthcare science is vital, not only for care of our patients, but also to develop innovative tests and treatments for future care.
