Healthcare Sciences

Healthcare Science is a term used to describe a group of professionals involved in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a large number of medical conditions. There are four categories that broadly fall under healthcare science, these are:

• Physiological Sciences – involves using specialist equipment and technologies to evaluate the different body systems to diagnose abnormalities and where possible provide treatment
• Life Sciences – includes supporting doctors and other healthcare professionals in the diagnosis and treatment of disease by analysing blood, tissue and other samples from patients (Pathology). Life sciences also include the fields of genetics and reproductive sciences.
• Physical Science and Biomedical Engineering – involves developing ways of measuring what is happening in the body to diagnose and treat disease. Specialties include:
  • Clinical Computing
  • Clinical Engineering
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Radiotherapy
  • Radiation Protection
  • Diagnostic Radiology
  • Rehabilitation Engineering and Biomechanics
  • Ultrasound and non-ionising radiation
  • Nuclear Medicine Diagnostics and Therapeutics
• Clinical bioinformatics – involves developing methods of acquiring, storing, organising and analysing biological data.

The services we provide at NLaG include:

• Audiology
• Neuro Physiology
• Cardiac Physiology
• Respiratory Physiology
• Pathology
• Nuclear Medicine
• Physiological Measurements
• Clinical Engineering.