Standards of Proficiency for Healthcare Science Assistants

The Academy will shortly be launching its consultation on our proposed Standards of Proficiency for Healthcare Science Assistants.

To be, and continue to be, registered with us, Healthcare Science Assistants must be able to demonstrate that they are ‘fit to practise’. By fitness to practise, we mean that someone has the skills, knowledge, character and capacity to practise safely and effectively as a Healthcare Science Assistant, both on their first day of registration and throughout their professional career.

The Standards of Proficiency therefore set out the minimum standards that someone must meet at the time they first register with us.