Guides

Guides to working in healthcare.

Practical, independent and written in plain English — free to read, and reviewed as the rules change. 35 guides and counting.

A practice nurse and a colleague talking at the reception desk of a busy general practice
Career choices7 min read

Primary care careers: working in a GP practice or PCN

General practice now employs pharmacists, paramedics, physiotherapists and social prescribers as well as nurses. What primary care roles involve and how hiring works.

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A hospice nurse sitting with a patient beside a window looking out onto a garden
Career choices7 min read

Working in a hospice: what the job is really like

Palliative care attracts people for reasons other jobs cannot match, and asks things of them that other jobs do not. What hospice roles involve and how to get in.

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