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In-depth, independent stories and context on working in UK health and social care — written by our editors and free to read. 33 articles and counting.
More clinicians now combine a substantive post with bank shifts, teaching, research or private work. How portfolio careers are put together, and the pitfalls.
Flexible working requests are a legal right from day one, but healthcare rotas make some patterns easier than others. What actually gets agreed, and how to ask.
Preceptorship, protected learning time, self-rostering and genuine flexibility. The things worth looking for in an advert, and the questions that reveal them.
Policy has been pushing care out of hospitals for years. Where that is genuinely creating roles, where it is not, and what it means for your next move.
Electronic records, remote monitoring and digital triage have changed day-to-day clinical work. What employers expect, and which skills are worth building.
ODPs work in anaesthetics, surgery and recovery, and the profession is chronically short of people. What the role covers and how the degree route works.
Midwifery is a separate register and a separate degree, not a nursing specialism. How to train, what the shortened route offers nurses, and what the job asks.
Hospital pharmacists, technicians and primary care pharmacists all do very different jobs. A guide to the roles, the training and where demand is strongest.
Around a tenth of NHS activity depends on healthcare scientists most patients never meet. The specialisms, the training routes, and why the jobs are hard to fill.
A newer role, widely debated and often misunderstood. What physician associates are trained to do, where they work, and what the regulation change means.
One of the four fields of nursing, and consistently the smallest. What learning disability nurses do, why demand keeps rising, and how to train.
Children's nursing is a separate field of the register with its own degree. What the work involves, where the jobs are, and what people find hardest about it.
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