Recruit expert talent for healthcare and pharma
Recruitment agencies, events and partnerships can help you tap into the huge network of healthcare and pharma talent in the UK.
Recruitment agencies
The UK has a number of agencies with expertise in healthcare and pharma recruitment. Find out more on the websites of recruitment agencies, including:
Talent locations
Healthcare and life sciences talent tends to be clustered round the UK’s many centres of excellence.
Precision medicine clusters
Scotland
Scotland has an extensive clinical data, research and facilities offering. There’s strong links between industry partners and centres of excellence, and to the NHS (National Health Service) Scotland. A typical example is the Living Laboratory Partnership between University of Glasgow and local NHS.
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is a hub for genomics, digital pathology and big data analytics, including the Precision Medicine Centre of Excellence at Queen’s University Belfast.
West Midlands
England’s West Midlands region is a hub for experimental and translational medicine. It has one of only three Advanced Therapy Treatment Centres in the UK. It’s also a world-class centre for precision medicine, clinical trials, and diagnostic imaging and digital leadership.
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
The cell and gene therapy cluster in Stevenage is the largest in Europe. It’s a global hub for R&D and manufacturing, and home to the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult and Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst. These both offer state-of-the-art facilities for the discovery and manufacture of cell and gene therapy products.
Medtech clusters
Midlands
The Midlands has a diverse and growing medtech sector, backed by world-leading research institutions and large teaching hospitals. The region has significant strength in clinical trials infrastructure and expertise.
Wales
Over 60% of all Welsh- based life sciences companies are in the medtech and diagnostic sub-sector. There are around 200 businesses working in medical diagnostics and devices in the Cardiff region alone.
The North of England
The area offers a wealth of opportunity to ambitious life science companies across the sector, including in vitro and molecular diagnostics, in vivo imaging and medical devices.
South of England
The region home to one of the largest life sciences clusters in the world, attracting talent and businesses to conduct specialist research and develop medical technologies. The region employs over 40,000 workers in the medtech sector.
Infectious diseases and anti-microbial resistance (AMR) research clusters
Liverpool
There are extensive research partnerships centred around the University of Liverpool, including the Institute of Infection and Global Health, and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
London
Major centres include the Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, operated by St Thomas’s Hospital and King’s College London Centre. Imperial College London hosts one of the largest centres for infectious disease research in Europe.
Norwich
The Norwich Research Park is one of the biggest concentrations of AMR research on one site in the UK, with collaborations between major industrial and academic research players.
Plymouth
Plymouth’s Institute of Translational and Stratified Medicine leads research into hepatology, antibiotic-resistant pathogens, novel vaccines and microbial diagnostics and infection control.
Expertise through knowledge transfer
The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) scheme provides opportunities for businesses who have an idea, but do not have all the talent needed to develop it. The scheme can link your company with an academic or research organisation, providing you with the services of a graduate as an associate.
A KTP is part-funded by a grant, with a contribution also made by the company.