What areas of healthcare can I work in?
Employment opportunities can be grouped into:
- allied health (e.g. physiotherapy, radiography, and occupational therapy)
- ambulance services
- complementary therapies
- dentistry
- health informatics
- health promotion
- healthcare administration and management
- healthcare science (e.g. clinical engineering, biomedical science, and pathology)
- medical equipment sales
- medicine (e.g. doctors, surgeons, and GPs)
- medical research
- midwifery
- nursing
- nutrition and diet
- optometry and opticians
- pharmacy
- psychological therapies.
You could work in the National Health Service (NHS), private healthcare or private/non-profit organisations in a range of settings including:
- care homes or hospices
- community healthcare (e.g. doctors’ surgeries, dental surgeries, health clinics)
- hospitals
- medical laboratories
- people’s homes.
In large organisations such as the NHS and private healthcare providers such as Bupa, there are also jobs for graduates in:
- customer care
- finance
- hospitality
- human resources (HR)
- IT
- legal services
- marketing
- procurement
- sales.