healthcare scientist

A broad, generic term for any of the workers in the NHS who carry out an array of vital healthcare-related duties, playing a major part in providing health services in diagnostics, therapeutics and rehabilitation engineering, and who are often at the cutting edge of technological advances and innovation.

Healthcare scientists work in primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare, in both the NHS and private healthcare. The 40-plus job titles are grouped into three main sections, based primarily on the underlying branch of science from which they originate: life sciences, physical sciences, and physiological sciences, with pay bands defined under the Agenda for Change initiative ranging from 2/3 to 9.

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A HEALTHCARE scientist has received acclaim for an pioneering project to improve patient care.

Health award for scientist

A former healthcare scientist, Ian Cumming, who has 25 years' experience in the NHS, is moving from the same position at NHS North Lancashire in early June.

NHS region's new leader

Latest recruits include Debbie Sandford, who has taken up a post as audit administrator; documenting clerk Brenda Parsons and assistant healthcare scientist Ning You.

Healthy outlook for employment

The retired healthcare scientist said the gift was a way of saying thank you for a banana handed to her by the Queen Mother when she was four years old.

mad world

Matthias Reumann, healthcare scientist and technical leader of the project, IBM Research.

United States : Rhon-Klinikum Hospitals to Study How IBM Watson Can Support Doctors in the Diagnosis of Rare Diseases

Healthcare scientist, Dr Jonathan Reeves, from The Royal London's clinical physics clinical academic unit, said: "By the end of the two years, we hope to have a tested thermal device ready to be trialled within a large scale clinical study.

Staying cool

Healthcare scientist Steve Cotterill said the equipment would also avoid a lot of repetitive strain injuries suffered in the department as, with the old equipment, staff had to spend up to three hours a day manually working the machine.

Gift will speed up work of biopsy lab; HOSPITAL: Welcome for new machine donated by League of Friends

Anne Burge, a neuro-physiologist healthcare scientist based at City Hospital in Birmingham, was made an MBE for her services to physiological sciences.

NEW YEAR HONOURS: I'm serving the Queen in three roles now; MBE

Sara Caldicott was pipped at the post for the title of Young Healthcare Scientist of the Year at a gala dinner in London.

Praise for Welsh health scientist

Chief scientific officer Sue Hill said: "These awards celebrate the tremendous achievements of the healthcare scientist workforce highlighting the skills and talents of a workforce that often prefers to remain in the background.

Award for pioneer scientist

Neurophysiology Healthcare Scientist, City Hospital, Birmingham.

NEW YEAR HONOURS: New Year Honours in the Midlands

INNOVATIVE: Healthcare scientist across the country will be opening their departments to school and college students to give talks and lectures on the vital and innovative work they do

JOBS: Putting science to work for health; WORKERS MAKE A VITAL CONTRIBUTION TO PATIENT CARE