The Society has received a letter, which is published with permission from the Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
The letter was written in response to the Royal College of Radiologists’ publication ‘Medical image interpretation by radiographers: Guidance for radiologists and healthcare providers’. The publication, which was released in April this year, can be viewed here.
The SoR is taking its campaign to scrap hospital car parking charges to the TUC later this month.
The Society’s motion will call for the abolition of car parking charges for in-patients, out-patients, family and friends. It will also call for fair and reasonable car parking for NHS staff.
Last September, former Health Secretary Andy Burnham pledged to end car parking charges for inpatients, and their families and friends, within three years. However, the coalition Government has abandoned this plan.
The Society will put forward a motion at this month’s TUC to call for a ban on the cosmetic use of sunbeds in the UK. The motion will call on the Government to ‘restrict the use of sunbeds to clinical conditions’, such as eczema.
The SoR campaign has already hit the national headlines, as news of the controversial call reached both The Daily Express and The Daily Mirror.
Departments are gearing up to celebrate World Radiography Day 2010, which takes place on Monday 8 November.
The Society is encouraging all radiographers – diagnostic and therapeutic – to plan events. Open days, competitions, exhibitions, school visits and ideas to raise awareness of the profession are held by departments and higher educational institutions.
This year's event is being sponsored by Guerbet.
This summer has seen competition for jobs and higher education in the UK get tougher; but amidst the gloomy reports comes good news from radiography graduates.
In August, 180,000 candidates chased clearing places on a day of record A-level results and the Office for National Statistics reported that 2.46 million people in the UK remain unemployed.
Yet a new study reveals that 80% of radiography students graduating in 2009 had found a job after only eight weeks.
A radiographer says he is "pleased and proud" to be the first to receive accreditation under his professional body's advanced and consultant practitioner accreditation scheme.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNAECOLOGISTS (RCOG): ULTRASOUND TRAINING
A Joint Statement by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Society and College of Radiographers, endorsed by the British Medical Ultrasound Society
At team of volunteers from the radiography workforce is being recruited to provide MRI, CT, ultrasonography and digital x-ray services at the London Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Based at the polyclinic in the Olympic Village, a 'state-of-the-art' facility is being built to accommodate equipment and staff.
The Society's new president Sandie Mathers has set the tone for the coming year. In her presidential inauguration speech on 7 July, she called for improved multi-disciplinary working between radiologists and radiographers.
“The keyword in all this is team – not each professional group working within their own boundaries for their own betterment – but truly working in partnership to provide effective services fit for the 21st Century."
SoR President Gill Dolbear welcomed two new members to the College of Radiographers Industry Partnership Scheme (CoRIPS) at this year's United Kingdom Radiological Conference (UKRC).
The two new partners - Allied Medical and Healthcare Software Systems - were given plaques acknowledging their membership by Gill during a presentation on the first day of conference, Monday 7 June.
Allied Medical and Healthcare Software Systems now will join the 11 other established partners, collaborating with the SoR to extend their knowledge to over 24,000 radiographers.
The radiology department at Homerton University Hospital has recently been involved in the making of a forthcoming feature film.
'Late Bloomers' - which stars Joanna Lumley, Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt - is a drama in which Ms Rossellini's character is required to attend hospital for a series of diagnostic investigations.
The production company behind the drama contacted Colin West, head of imaging services at Homerton, with a request to film within the hospital's radiology department.
