Health: useful links and news sources

Key employers

The sector is dominated by the National Health Service, the largest employer in the UK, but this is composed of many organisations and establishments. In 2008, the UK had around 45,000 healthcare establishments, 67% of which had ten or fewer employees - these were mainly in the independent or voluntary sector¹. For details of employers within the sector, visit the NHS employers list, which is organised by region.

There are also a number of large, high-profile international organisations within the sector such as the Red Cross and the World Health Organisation.

Skills for Health, the Sector Skills Council for the health industry

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The National Health Service Careers

• NHS Careers Profiles
• NHS Jobs, and RSS feed (requires registration)
• NHS employers list
• NHS Professionals - flexible work opportunities for nursing and medical staff.
• NHS Scotland Recruitment
• NHS Scotland: Scotland's Health on the Web (SHOW)
• NHS Wales
• British Medical Association (BMA)
  
  • news feed
• British Red Cross 
  
  • news feed
• Care Quality Commission (CQC)  - new health and social care regulator for England.
• Careers and Opportunities in NHS Scotland  
• Department of Health (DH) 
  
  • The DH RSS feed directory
• Health Jobs UK  
• Jobs in Health 
• Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)  
• New Scientist Jobs  
  
  • RSS feed for clinical jobs at New Scientist
• Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) 
  
  • NMC news feed
• NursingNetUK - nursing and midwifery vacancies.
• Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) - representative body for private agencies.
• Royal College of Midwives (RCM) 
• Volunteer Scotland  
• Volunteer Now  - volunteering in Northern Ireland.
• Volunteering England 
• Volunteering Wales  
• World Health Organisation (WHO)
• Vacancies at the WHO