Check out our roundup of Healthcare Science Week 2025!

14 March 2025

Chloe Mirfin works as part of a multidisciplinary team, working closely with surgeons, anaesthetists, and operating department practitioners, across both adult and children’s services at the Northern General and Sheffield Children’s Hospitals to supports patients undergoing spinal surgery. Check out her profile here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keith Scholfield, Senior Clinical Engineer helps the NHS meet patients’ needs by repairing and returning to service important medical devices. Check out his profile here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abi’s role at Jessop Fertility is to look after all the laboratory aspects of a patient’s assisted conception treatment, right through from analysing sperm samples pre-treatment and advising patients and clinicians on appropriate treatments according to the results, collecting patients eggs, insemination, assessing embryos and then selecting the best one or two for replacement into the womb. Check out her profile here.

 

 

 

 

 

This #HCSWeek2025 post shines a spotlight on ‘Healthcare Science Heroes’ nominated by healthcare scientists themselves! As well as the every-day laboratory roles Davina carries out with her years’ of experience and compassion, she goes above and beyond for our patients. See her full profile by clicking here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tegan is a Medical Laboratory Assistant here at Jessop Fertility. Her role involves preparing the culture media and dishes for culturing sperm, eggs and embryos used in treatment and creating laboratory notes for the embryologists. See her full profile by clicking here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Samuel’s work helps in the diagnosis, therapeutic and monitoring of diseases related to bleeding and clotting. The clinicians cannot do their work without testing in the lab – without diagnosis and appropriate monitoring, these type of diseases can be fatal. See his full profile by clicking here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cara started training as a Clinical Embryologist at Jessop Fertility and her role involves learning and performing highly skilled laboratory procedures, such as handling and assessing gametes, culturing embryos, and assisting in IVF treatments. See her full profile by clicking here.

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