Biomedical Science Day 2023

 The day was a huge success - with engagement and awareness reaching deep into Parliament and as high as the top of London's BT tower!

The hashtags #BiomedicalScienceDay2023 and #AtTheHeartOfHealthcare got over 20,000 mentions on Twitter, with over 100,000 engagements, and they were seen by an estimated 2 million people in the UK alone. #BiomedicalScienceDay2023 was trending in the top 10 in the UK throughout the day and peaked at number 6 at lunchtime.

The hashtags were also used in over 1000 Facebook posts, 500 LinkedIn posts and 250 posts on Instagram.

Throughout the day, we updated followers on what was happening through our live blog - with posts from members and events across the UK. 

Events and activities photo gallery

Our Biomedical Science Day Activity Fund supported 40 members with over £15,000 to use for events promoting biomedical science and we received lots of news and pictures from our members at the 300 events that we sent our event packs out to.Across the UK, communications teams in hospitals and university laboratories handed their social media accounts over to their biomedical science laboratory staff and allowed them to celebrate and inform their followers about the skills and expertise involved in their practice.You can see a large collection of the photos that IBMS members shared in our Facebook photo gallery

Announcing our #AtTheHeartOfHealthcare Competition winners

As part of our bid to raise awareness of the vital role of biomedical science in healthcare, we ran our annual #AtTheHeartOfHealthcare competitions - encouraging biomedical science staff across the country to celebrate and showcase their workplaces, colleagues, expertise and team spirit to the public.

As always competition was high and we had over 600 entries from our members.