Healthcare science describes the branch of the NHS staff that use technology and science to help patients by prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a large number of clinical conditions.
NHS Scotland's Healthcare Science workforce spans three divisions covering approximately fifty specialties and categorised within three streams:
Life Sciences
Physiological Sciences
Physical Sciences
We are the 4th largest group of NHS staff with approximately 6000 healthcare scientists in post across NHS Scotland including remote, rural and island health boards.
E-Learning for Healthcare Science
At NES Healthcare Science Team, we act as the national focus for healthcare science education and training in three ways: we commission training, we offer generic CPD and we quality monitor training departments. Our aim is to support a multi-profession repository for learning material information and resources to help you in your job, focusing on the relevant Healthcare Science Stream and disciplines.
We have piloted some basic e-learning resources and are interested in hearing from our HCS colleagues who have relevant learning materials. The HCS team at NES intends to explore converting such material into e-learning content. For further information, please contact us at HCS@nes.scot.nhs.uk
