- Allied health professionals
- Ambulance service team
- Dental team
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Doctors
- Anaesthesia
- Clinical oncology
- Clinical radiology
- Community sexual and reproductive health
- Emergency medicine
- General practice (GP)
- Intensive care medicine
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Medicine
- Acute internal medicine
- Allergy
- Audiovestibular medicine
- Cardiologist
- Clinical genetics
- Clinical neurophysiology
- Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
- Dermatology
- Endocrinology and diabetes
- Gastroenterology
- General internal medicine
- Genitourinary medicine
- Geriatric medicine
- Immunology
- Infectious diseases
- Medical oncology
- Medical ophthalmology
- Metabolic Medicine
- Neurologist
- Nuclear medicine
- Palliative medicine
- Pharmaceutical medicine
- Rehabilitation medicine
- Renal medicine
- Respiratory medicine
- Rheumatology
- Sport and exercise medicine
- Stroke medicine
- Tropical medicine
- Obstetrics and gynaecology
- Occupational medicine
- Ophthalmology
- Paediatrics
- Pathology
- Psychiatry
- Surgery
- Estates and facilities
- Health informatics
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Healthcare science
- Clinical bioinformatics
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Life sciences
- Analytical toxicology
- Anatomical pathology
- Biomedical science
- Blood sciences
- Cancer genomics
- Cellular sciences
- Clinical biochemistry
- Clinical immunology
- Cytopathology
- Genomic counselling
- Genomics
- Haematology (healthcare scientist)
- Histocompatibility and immunogenetics
- Histopathology (healthcare scientist)
- Infection sciences
- Microbiology (healthcare scientist)
- Reproductive science and andrology
- Virology (healthcare scientist)
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Physical sciences and biomedical engineering
- Clinical measurement
- Clinical or medical technology in medical physics
- Clinical pharmaceutical science
- Clinical photography
- Decontamination and sterile services
- Imaging (ionising)
- Imaging (non-ionising)
- Medical device risk management and governance
- Medical engineering
- Nuclear medicine (healthcare scientist)
- Radiation physics and radiation safety physics
- Radiotherapy physics
- Reconstructive science
- Rehabilitation engineering
- Renal technology
- Physiological sciences
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Healthcare support worker
- Dietetic assistant
- Healthcare assistant
- Healthcare support worker
- Maternity support worker
- Occupational therapy support worker
- Orthotic technician
- Physiotherapy assistants/support workers
- Podiatry assistant
- Prosthetic technician
- Radiography assistants and imaging support workers
- Speech and language therapy assistant
- Management
- Medical associate professions
- Midwifery
- Nursing
- Pharmacy
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Psychological professions
- Adult psychotherapist
- Assistant psychologist
- CBT therapist
- Child and adolescent psychotherapist
- Children's wellbeing practitioner
- Clinical psychologist
- Counselling psychologist
- Counsellor
- Education mental health practitioner
- Family and systemic psychotherapist
- Forensic psychologist
- Health psychologist
- High intensity therapist
- Mental health and wellbeing practitioner
- Peer support worker
- Psychological wellbeing practitioner
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Public health
- Director of public health
- Environmental health professional
- Health trainer
- Health visitor
- Occupational health nurse
- Public health academic
- Public health consultants and specialists
- Public health knowledge and intelligence professional
- Public health manager
- Public health nurse
- Public health practitioner
- School nurse
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Wider healthcare team
- Administration
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Clinical support staff
- Assistant practitioner
- Cardiographer
- Creative therapy support roles
- Dental support worker
- Donor carer
- Employment specialist
- Healthcare science assistants and associates
- Integrated urgent care/NHS 111 roles
- Newborn hearing screener
- Nutritionist
- Optometrist
- Orthopaedic practitioner
- Phlebotomist
- Social prescribing link worker
- Social worker
- Support, time and recovery worker
- Theatre support worker
- Corporate services
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