At least one team member in any project entry should consider themselves an allied health professional or healthcare scientist, and should be providing healthcare provision in the UK.
Specifically, allied health professionals and healthcare scientists are considered to be those working in one of the following specialisms:
anatomical pathology (technologist)
art therapy
audiology science
biomedical science
cardiac clinical science
cardiac physiology
cardiography
cervical cytoscreening
chiropody
clinical biochemistry
clinical cytogenetics
clinical embryology
clinical engineer
clinical histocompatibility and immunogenetics
clinical immunology
clinical microbiology
clinical physicist
dietetics
drama therapy
gastroenterology (technologist)
haematology
haemostasis and thrombosis
health informaticians
hearing therapy
medical illustrator
medical laboratory practice
medical physicist
molecular genetics
music therapy
neurophysiology (technologist)
occupational therapy
operating department practice
orthoptics
orthotics
paramedicine
perfusion
pharmacy
phlebotomy
physiotherapy
podiatry
prosthetics
psychology
psychotherapy
radiography
respiratory physiology (technologist)
speech and language therapy.
The allied health professionals and healthcare scientists are a vital part of the healthcare workforce and we are delighted put these talented specialists under the spotlight.