About 50,000 healthcare scientists work in the NHS, carrying out a variety of vital duties that range from disease diagnosis to rehabilitation engineering. They play a major part in providing health services at the cutting edge of technological advance, innovation, diagnostic and therapeutic science. Healthcare scientists work in primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare, in both the NHS and private healthcare.

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Story tracing the journey of a gunshot victim from the moment he arrives at emergency and the role of healthcare scientists.

The forty plus professions, groups and disciplines within healthcare science are grouped into three main sections, based primarily on the underlying branch of science from which they originate. The three branches are:

• Life Sciences
• Physiological Sciences
• Physical Sciences and Clinical Engineering

The facts about healthcare scientists

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