Why become involved?
Networking and meeting with colleagues, maintaining professional interest, developing new skills and enhancing CVs and PDPs have all been cited as reasons why healthcare scientists become involved in promoting the role of healthcare scientists.

How to become involved
Healthcare scientists can become involved in promoting their professions and roles within trusts and hospitals. Create awareness of the work of healthcare scientists to a wider audience by contributing to hospital magazines, attending informal general staff meetings or forums and ensuring your workplace is involved with public open days and student placements. Healthcare scientists are also well placed to offer advice and expertise to many hospital committees such as health and safety, IT or clinical governance.

There is recognition in general science circles that more needs to be done to promote the sciences to school pupils. Links between hospitals and schools, leaflet distribution to libraries or careers offices, work placements and lectures at local schools and colleges are all activities that can be designed to increase interest and awareness of healthcare science as a potential career option. Healthcare workplaces can also join in with hospital open days to demonstrate experiments and the work carried out in laboratories to the public in general.

Healthcare Science Week
Healthcare Science Week, supported by the Department of Health, is an opportunity to acknowledge the important contribution made by all the healthcare scientists in the NHS, as well as to educate young adults, the media and other NHS staff about the different roles played by healthcare scientists in healthcare today.

Healthcare scientists are involved in many UK-wide activities to raise the profile of healthcare scientists working in the NHS, and of the vital services that they provide for patient care. The week also showcases the range of career opportunities in healthcare science.

Activities, such as exhibitions, interactive stands, tours or on-hand experiments have, just as crucially raised the profile of the healthcare scientists with other healthcare colleagues, trust or hospital chairman and executives, trust press officers reporting for newsletters, local press and political leaders or MPs.
More information on Healthcare Science Week

Local healthcare science groups
Healthcare scientists are increasingly organising local groups to liaise with trusts, strategic health authorities and workforce confederations.
More information on local healthcare science groups

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