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New Zealand needs medical scientists.

Green List · Tier 1 · straight to residence · immigration.govt.nz

You run the tests behind most clinical decisions — bloods, cultures, tissue, transfusion.

A medical scientist in a white coat holds a tablet of results on a university campus in Dublin.

Medical Lab Scientist

New Zealand · Medical Sciences Council

NZ Green List · Tier 1IE Critical Skills · HSE shortageAU Shortage List 2025CA Express Entry

5 of 5

countries carry this profession on an official shortage or priority list

gov.uk · hse.ie · enterprise.gov.ie

NZ Tier 1

Green List Tier 1 — straight to residence

immigration.govt.nz · 2026-09-22

275

open listings — NHS Jobs, HSE jobs, Health NZ portal, Job Bank Canada

exact title & keyword match · 2026-09-22

18,500

healthcare invitations in the last 12 months — 6 draws

canada.ca · rounds of invitations · 2026-09-22

What you do abroad

The work, and why it matters.

You run the tests behind most clinical decisions — bloods, cultures, tissue, transfusion.

For patients

Seventy per cent of clinical decisions rest on a lab result. Yours.

For the system

Ireland names you an HSE diagnostic-capacity shortage. New Zealand puts you on Tier 1.

For you

Registered under the title each country uses — Biomedical Scientist, Medical Scientist.

Where the work happens

  • Hospital laboratories
  • Blood services
  • Public health labs
  • Private pathology
Where you're wanted

Five of five countries list this role.

Each card carries this profession's strongest fact there, and what is open on the boards today.

United KingdomEligible for the Health & Care Worker visa (SOC 2113)gov.uk · 2026-09-22
214 live · NHS Jobs

exact title · 2026-09-22

NHS Agenda for ChangeGBP 32,073Primary confidence — From the regulator’s own site or fee schedule, September 2026.

Band 5, entry step · a year

Source: nhsemployers.org · agenda for change pay scales · 1 Apr 2026

IrelandNamed an HSE shortage role — national training programme announcedhse.ie · april 2026
6 live · HSE jobs

keyword match · 2026-09-22

HSE consolidated pay scaleEUR 45,279Primary confidence — From the regulator’s own site or fee schedule, September 2026.

entry grade · a year

Source: assets.hse.ie · consolidated salary scales · 1 Jun 2026

New ZealandGreen List Tier 1 — straight to residenceimmigration.govt.nz · 2026-09-22
4 live · Health NZ portal

exact title · 2026-09-22

Health NZ allied health scaleNZD 77,087Primary confidence — From the regulator’s own site or fee schedule, September 2026.

Step 1 · entry grade · a year

Source: tewhatuora.govt.nz · allied health collective agreement · 2 Sept 2024

CanadaIn the Express Entry healthcare category (NOC 32120)canada.ca · 2026-09-22
51 live · Job Bank Canada

keyword match · 2026-09-22

BC health science professionalsCAD 37.79Primary confidence — From the regulator’s own site or fee schedule, September 2026.

P1, first year · entry grade · an hour

Source: hsabc.org · health science professionals agreement · 1 Apr 2025

You'd be in good company

Named, in their own words.

As of 28 August 2026, the highest numbers of approved graduate registrations were recorded in Social Work (188), Physiotherapy (165), Medical Science (114) and Occupational Therapy (91).
coru.ie · over 820 newly graduated health · 28 Aug 2026
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Who regulates you

Who decides, country by country.

The regulator assesses your qualification. We prepare and submit the file. The decision is theirs.

United Kingdom

HCPC (Biomedical Scientist)

Registered as Biomedical Scientist

  • Degree, transcripts & syllabus mapped to its Standards of Proficiency
  • Registration and experience in your home country
  • English language test
hcpc-uk.org

Ireland

CORU (Medical Scientist)

Registered as Medical Scientist

  • Qualification recognition against the Irish standard
  • Syllabus, placement hours and scope of practice
  • English language and good standing
coru.ie
  • Qualification assessment or portfolio, board by board
  • Supervised practice and recency
  • English language test
aims.org.au
  • Qualification assessed against the NZ standard
  • Registration with the profession’s own board
  • Green List job offer → Straight to Residence
mscouncil.org.nz
  • Credential assessment for the province you choose
  • A national certification exam for most professions
  • Language test — English or French
csmls.org
Your route

Four steps to registration.

Fit check against HCPC / CORU standards

Your degree, syllabus and clinical hours read against the regulator’s own published standards.

Syllabus mapped to the regulator’s title

Every document in the form the regulator asks for, translated and legalised in the right order.

Filed in your regulator account

Filed in your own account. Every query drafted by us, sent by you, tracked to the answer.

Registered

Registration comes first. The visa route follows the destination country’s published framework.

Recent numbers

The latest official figures.

Read from the government's own pages in September 2026. The date is the disclosure.

14,357

medical scientists on the CSMLS register

csmls.org · annual report 2025

3,508

medical scientists on the CORU register

coru.ie · coru annual report 2025

41%

of new medical laboratory science registrants trained abroad — Medical Sciences Council

mscouncil.org.nz · annual report 1 april 2024 · 2024-2025

Tier 1

Green List Tier 1 — straight to residence

immigration.govt.nz · 2026-09-22

10,000

skilled-independent (189) invitations in the last SkillSelect round

immi.homeaffairs.gov.au · 2026-09-22

Canada's last six Express Entry healthcare draws

Draw dateInvitationsCRS cut-off
4 Sept 20263,500475
25 Jun 20264,000475
20 Feb 20264,000467
11 Dec 20251,000476
14 Nov 20253,500462
15 Oct 20252,500472

canada.ca · rounds of invitations · 2026-09-22

Route finder

Where could you be working next year?

Two answers. Ten seconds. Then we show you what's open for your profession.

These describe each country’s general immigration framework as published, not a route we can promise or advise on. Immigration rules change and are applied case by case. For your own circumstances, consult a registered immigration adviser.

See your own route as a medical lab scientist.

One more answer — where you want to work — and the facts are on screen.