Make sure your department completes the 2015 training capacity survey – closes 31 Mar
The 2015 Healthcare Science Training Capacity survey closes on Tuesday, 31 March 2015. Make sure your service managers or department heads have given their view, even if your department does not currently have any trainees.
The team running the survey have issued an urgent reminder to Healthcare Science service managers and department heads.
In particular, they are asking the 389 departments who have started but not yet submitted the survey to persevere through to completion as they are only able to process the service data once the ‘submit’ button is hit for the survey.
They have also issued an urgent call to those specialisms and areas where there has been a low response rate to date:
Responses by specialism:
| Specialism | % of all responses | Number |
| Anatomical pathology technology | 0.46% | 2 |
| Audiology | 9.66% | 42 |
| Bioinformatics (Genomics) | 1.38% | 6 |
| Bioinformatics (Health Informatics Science) | 0.23% | 1 |
| Bioinformatics (Physical Sciences) | 1.15% | 5 |
| Cardiac Physiology | 8.97% | 39 |
| Clinical Biochemistry | 4.37% | 19 |
| Clinical Immunology | 1.38% | 6 |
| Clinical Measurement & Development | 0.69% | 3 |
| Clinical Perfusion Science | 0.00% | 0 |
| Clinical Pharmaceutical Science | 0.92% | 4 |
| Clinical Photography/Medical Illustration | 1.84% | 8 |
| Critical Care Science | 0.69% | 3 |
| Cytopathology | 0.23% | 1 |
| Gastrointestinal Physiology | 1.84% | 8 |
| Genetics | 3.91% | 17 |
| Haematology and Transfusion Science | 2.99% | 13 |
| Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics | 1.38% | 6 |
| Histopathology | 2.99% | 13 |
| Imaging (ionising radiation) | 2.07% | 9 |
| Imaging (non-ionising radiation) | 2.30% | 10 |
| Medical Device Risk Management & Governance | 0.46% | 2 |
| Medical Engineering | 2.76% | 12 |
| Microbiology (including: infection control & epidemiology, virology, bacteriology, mycology, parasitology) | 5.06% | 22 |
| Neurophysiology | 8.28% | 36 |
| Nuclear Medicine | 3.91% | 17 |
| Ophthalmic & Vision Sciences | 0.46% | 2 |
| Radiation Engineering | 0.69% | 3 |
| Radiation Safety Physics | 1.84% | 8 |
| Radiotherapy Physics | 5.06% | 22 |
| Reconstructive Science (Maxillofacial Prosthetics) | 2.99% | 13 |
| Rehabilitation Engineering | 1.15% | 5 |
| Renal Technology | 0.23% | 1 |
| Reproductive Science | 1.61% | 7 |
| Respiratory Physiology | 6.21% | 27 |
| Sleep Physiology | 1.61% | 7 |
| Urodynamic Science | 0.23% | 1 |
| Vascular Physiology | 2.99% | 13 |
| Other (please specify): | 5.06% | 22 |
Responses by LETB:
| LETB | % of all responses | Number |
| East of England | 7.13% | 31 |
| East Midlands | 6.21% | 27 |
| Kent, Surrey and Sussex | 4.60% | 20 |
| North Central and East London | 4.37% | 19 |
| North East | 4.14% | 18 |
| North West | 16.78% | 73 |
| North West London | 2.53% | 11 |
| South London | 6.67% | 29 |
| South West | 11.49% | 50 |
| Thames Valley | 3.22% | 14 |
| Wessex | 8.74% | 38 |
| West Midlands | 11.03% | 48 |
| Yorkshire and Humber | 13.10% | 57 |
To complete the survey
The survey can be accessed here http://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s.asp?i=141162tovaq until 5pm on Tuesday 31st March 2015.
Read more on the Healthcare Sciences training capacity survey 2015 brief from our website
