Enhancing employability through hospital placements for Biomedical Science students

Collaboration between Universities and hospitals has provided the National Health Service (NHS) with many excellent Biomedical Scientists through placement year scheme. Here, we document number of students joining scheme type hospital departments offering student placements over a 10-year period.
 Prior to 2012, were able join fully-funded Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). Since then, there been fluctuation in numbers completing at University Essex, but employability these graduates remains consistently higher than our 3-year graduates. We demonstrate positive impact an NHS laboratory students, contribution university metrics good degrees graduate outcomes as well provision much needed, qualified biomedical science staff hospitals.