Coverage of the Joint JNC

Annex P

Nursing and Midwifery
  • Nurses Midwives
  • Health visitors
  • Nurse Tutors
Allied health professional groups
  • Art therapists
  • Drama therapists
  • Music therapists
  • Chiropodists/podiatrists
  • Dietitians
  • Occupational therapists
  • Orthoptists
  • Orthotists
  • Prosthetists
  • Physiotherapists
  • Radiographers
  • Speech and language therapists
  • Ambulance paramedics
The professions in healthcare science
Engineering and the physical sciences
  • Clinical engineers
  • Medical physicists
  • Medical physics technologists
  • Nuclear medicine technologists
  • Critical care technologists
  • Radiotherapy technologists
  • Rehabilitation engineers
  • Clinical measurement technicians
  • Vascular technologists
  • Medical illustrators
  • Renal dialysis technologists
  • Technologists in equipment management
Physiological sciences
  • Audiological scientists
  • Hearing therapists
  • Audiological technicians
  • Cardiology physiologists
  • Cardiographers
  • Clinical perfusionists
  • Gastroenterology technicians
  • Neurophysiologists
  • Respiratory physiologists
Life sciences
  • Biomedical scientists
  • Cytology screeners
  • Medical laboratory assistants
  • Phlebotomists
  • Clinical biochemists
  • Clinical cytogeneticists
  • Molecular geneticists
  • Cytogenetics and molecular genetics assistants
  • Clinical embryologists
  • Clinical microbiologists
  • Clinical scientists (in haematology)
  • Clinical scientists (in immunology and histocompatibility)
  • Post-mortem technicians
  • Quality assurance scientists
Other healthcare professions
  • Healthcare pharmacists
  • Hospital optometrists
  • Clinical psychologists
  • Adult and child psychotherapists
  • Family therapists (with a minimum training requirement of at least three years to diploma level or equivalent in family therapy)
  • Operating department practitioners
Clinical support workers and technicians
  • Clinical support workers and technicians who directly support the work of the professions outlined above
  • Nursing auxiliaries, healthcare assistants and maternity assistants (supporting nurses, midwives and health visitors)
  • Assistant psychologists and child psychotherapists (supporting clinical psychologists and child psychotherapists)
  • Dental nurses, technicians, therapists and hygienists
  • Medical laboratory assistants, assistant technical officers, senior assistant technical officers (supporting healthcare scientists)
  • Operating department assistants (supporting operating department practitioners)
  • Pharmacy technicians and assistants
  • AHP helpers, AHP assistants and technical instructors,
  • Speech and language therapist assistants
  • Ambulance technicians
Others
  • Estates officers
  • Public health
  • General managers