Integration and Implementation of Diagnostic Technologies in Healthcare

The first report of the Science in Health Group has now been launched. The Executive Summary can be downloaded here; to request a copy of the full report, please contact the secretary to the Science in Health Group, Ali Orr.

The Science Council is working with Sense About Science, the Royal College of Pathologists and the PHG Foundation to carry forward the report's recommendations. Download their own reports on testing from the right hand menu.

Future Careers for Scientists in Health

The Science Council estimates that well over 100,000 scientists are employed in health sciences in the UK, both within the NHS or in related and connected services and support, and in health-related industrial and academic activities. Almost half of those who work in the NHS are termed ‘healthcare scientists’ and this in turn is spread across nearly fifty professional groups. Other health scientists are employed in the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors, academia, diagnostics and equipment, other commercial services and solution providers related to health delivery, in public health,
animal health and in regulation.

Read the latest progress report from the SiHG researcher

The SiHG would like to hear from individuals and organisations that operate in this sector and has devised two surveys to invite comment. Health scientists can respond to the individual survey while employers and professional bodies may wish to respond to the organisational survey.

For further information on the project and how to get involved, please contact the SiHG researcher Eleanor Kennedy.

 

SiHG Terms of Reference

• Advise the Board on issues arising in Science in Health and alert them to priorities.
• Carry out special investigations at the request of the Board.
• Seek positively for areas where member bodies can act collectively rather then severally, taking advantage of the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary wealth of the group.
• Provide Minutes / Notes of their meetings to the Office for circulation to the Board.
• Have powers to co-opt members, subject to the approval of the Board.
• Promote and develop knowledge and best practice of science in health.
• Endeavour to ensure that the latest developments in science are fully applied to the benefit of health.
• Seek to promote the success of industry and contributing to the delivery of the health sector.
• Promote public awareness of the benefits to be gained from the effective use of science in the improvement of health.
• Seek to collaborate in the development of common policies amongst those entities whose members practise science in the field of health and co-operate with those entities whose functions or activities are related to health.
• Seek to work with those having influence with government, especially in Departments concerned with science and health.
• Respond to major issues relating to health, particularly those raised by the Department of Health, Department for Education and Employment, Department of Trade and Industry / Office of Science and Technology, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions and the devolved administrations.
• Each year, identify between one of the three topics overriding significance in the field of science in health and subject then to critical analysis through, for example, the gathering of evidence and the organisation of consensus conferences, with subsequent dissemination of findings through publications and in fora such as Parliamentary Select Committees
  

Approved by Board on 11th October 2004

Membership

Professor Stephen Holgate	Chairman
Dr Colin Baker	Institute of Physics
Charles (Brian) Buckley	CIWEM
Professor Zhanfeng Cui	Institution of Chemical Engineers
Professor Rousseau Gama	Royal Society of Chemistry
Diana Garnham	Science Council
Dr Russell Hamilton	Department of Health
Professor Sue Hill OBE	Department of Health
Bryan Hurst	Institute of Clinical Research
Dr Keith Ison	Federation for Healthcare Science / Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
Mary Manning	Academy of Medical Sciences
Professor Theresa Marteau	British Psychological Society
Dr Gwyn McCreanor	Association for Clinical Biochemistry
Professor John Nicholson	Institute of Materials, Mining and Minerals
Dr Frankie Philips	Institute of Food Science & Technology
Alan Potter	Science Council Board Representative
Jean Roberts	British Computer Society
John Stevens	Institute of Biomedical Science
Professor John Whiting	HUCBMS
Dr Eleanor Kennedy	Project Researcher
Ali Orr	Group Secretary