The Academy for Healthcare Science (AHCS) is a United Kingdom body which brings together the UK's

Healthcare science The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to health sciences: Health sciences are those sciences which focus on health, or health care, as core parts of their subject matter. Health sciences relate to multiple acad ...

community under a common umbrella. It plays an important role in the statutory regulation of Healthcare Scientists following the completion of

Modernising Scientific Careers Modernising Scientific Careers (MSC) is a UK-wide government initiative to address the training and education needs of the whole healthcare science workforce in the National Health Service (NHS). The initiative won a Healthcare Innovation Award in ...

training programme and works closely with the

National School of Healthcare Science The National School of Healthcare Science is part of the infrastructure for Healthcare Science education and training within the NHS in England, established through the Modernising Scientific Careers programme. It is a hosted function of Health Ed ...

Role and function

The Academy for Healthcare Science has four main roles: *To provide a unified professional voice for the healthcare science workforce *To act as the overarching body for issues related to education, training and development in the UK health system and beyond. This includes both maintaining professional standards and quality management of education and training *To ensure the Healthcare science profession has a high profile that influences and informs the health & care system in the UK *To provide engagement and support for wider strategic scientific initiatives

Registration of healthcare science workforce

The precise arrangements for the regulation of the healthcare science workforce in the UK are still evolving (as at April 2013). Traditionally, A number of healthcare science disciplines (such as Biomedical Scientists) had protected titles - which means they were required by law to be registered with the

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to use particular professional job titles. The introduction of a new education and training structure under

has required the development of a common approach to regulation and registration across the disciplines and career levels that takes account of the different legal requirements across the various healthcare science roles. This is being led by the AHCS.

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