Welcome
Thank you for visiting the NHS North West Healthcare Science Network's home on the internet.
Through this website we share with the 7,000+ healthcare scientists in the North West the latest news and developments in healthcare science and details of events, funding and new programmes for continuing professional development and clinical leadership.
There is also an interactive forum for you to link up with fellow healthcare scientists across the region.
Our guiding principle
We are committed to achieving the vision of Modernising Scientific Careers (Department of Health 2008):
The vision for healthcare science is of a world class workforce integral to multi-professional teams delivering high quality innovative patient care, in a range of settings.
“The healthcare science workforce will also deliver excellence in knowledge creation, innovation and service improvement.
“It will lead and embrace research and development, continually evaluating clinical practice and care delivery models.