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What is the
pharmaceutical
sector?
The pharmaceutical sector is part of the healthcare sector that deals with drugs and medications.
Have you ever been poorly and been prescribed medicine? Had a vaccine? Seen an advert for a new medicine?
This all comes under the pharmaceutical sector – from
the research of a drug, to a person receiving it in hospital or in their own home.
What most people do not think about when they pick up medicine from
the pharmacists, is how much time, money and research went into the development and creation of each one.
This guide will give you an insight into some careers available in the pharmaceutical sector.
We want you to know, that pharmaceutical does not always mean ‘science’. There are hundreds of jobs in this sector and we want to tell you about some of them ...