The School is part of Health Education England (HEE). The School facilitates and supports the education, training and development of all healthcare scientists from apprentices to Consultant grade, and provides programmes to allow scientists to adapt to new technologies and work flexibly across patient pathways providing high quality services.
Programme
The Scientist Training Programme (STP) is a three-year programme of work-based learning, supported by a University accredited master's degree.
Programme
The Higher Specialist Scientist Training (HSST) programme is a bespoke five-year workplace-based training programme supported by a Doctoral level academic award.
Programme
The Practitioner Training Programme (PTP) is a three-year BSc Honours undergraduate training scheme that includes work-based and academic learning.
Programme
The Accredited Scientific Practice (ASP) programme enables employers to develop bespoke short courses to meet training needs within the Healthcare Science workforce.
Programme
We act as a focus for the Healthcare Science Apprenticeship Programme by coordinating communications and information.
Service
We are responsible for the accreditation of academic programmes for the Practitioner Training Programme (PTP), the Scientist Training Programme (STP) and the Higher Specialist Scientist Training Programme (HSST) and work-based providers for the STP and HSST Programmes.
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We are responsible for curricula for the Practitioner and Scientist Training Programme (PTP and STP) and Higher Specialist Scientist Training (HSST) programme.
Service
We want you to have the best training experience, but you should also take care of your health and wellbeing.
Service
We have been approved by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) to offer the end-point assessment (EPA) for the Levels 2, 4 and 6 Healthcare Science (HCS) Apprenticeship Standards.
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We provide and support the OneFile e-portfolio service used by trainees, trainers and assessors across healthcare science programmes.
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We provide face-to-face and online training and guidance for Training Officers and Supervisors on our training programmes.
Listen to John as he talks about what it’s like to be a Decontamination Science apprentice.
Find out about Larissa’s apprenticeship journey and her experiences so far.
From a young age, Samanatha was interested in the workings of the heart, and chose biology, chemistry and physical education as her A level subjects.
Listen to Tim as he talks about what it’s like to be a trainee on the Scientist Training Programme.
Listen to Denis talk about being an STP trainee and graduate.
All abstracts will be considered for both oral and poster presentation.
As the NHS looks to the future, healthcare scientists will be working at the cutting edge of existing health technologies and actively helping to shape the development of future tools, diagnostics, devices and therapies to transform health and social care.
Dr Mohannad Alajlani, Senior Teaching Fellow – Digital Healthcare Science at WMG, University of Warwick reflects on the emergence of a new healthcare role that embraces widespread shifts to digital technology.
The Genomics Education Programme is developing a competency framework to communicate genomic test results.