To answer some questions posed in several posts above,
1)Yes, you probably should call yourself a "Healthcare Scientist" because
2) There is a "Healthcare Scientist" career structure and set of banding profiles which should (in theory) allow anyone to climb the ladder from band 1 up to band 9 by demonstrating the appropriate skills. It's linked into Skills for Health NOS frameworks, I leave it to those with supernatural insight to see how this will fit in to regulation though.
Yours No 42
PS Heres a link to DOH thinking on registration
http://www.vrct.org.uk/vrct/Updates/DH%20Statement%20December%202007.pdf
