A newly published leaflet offers patients advice about the precautions imaging and interventional radiology teams are putting in place to protect them from Covid-19.

Created by the Royal College of Radiologists and the SCoR, the guidance answers questions such as ‘How am I protected?’ and ‘What else do I need to know?’

Evidence-based guidance on why contact shielding for patients is no longer needed during diagnostic procedures has been published.

The guidance document and accompanying patient leaflet explains why shielding to protect critical organs is not necessary for patients in general radiography, diagnostic and interventional fluoroscopy, CT, mammography, and dental radiography.

AUTHOR: NICHOLAS BARLOW, CONSULTANT RADIOGRAPHER IN PLAIN FILM, ROTHERHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

With the onus on efficient reporting of Covid-19 cases, some trusts have delegated all chest reporting to radiologists, despite having established chest reporting radiographers in place.

AUTHOR: ALEXANDRA COOK, DEPARTMENT LEAD RADIOGRAPHER

As I walked into work this morning, I remember when I started working here in late March. We opened the hospital a week later.

In normal life, without Covid-19, I would be walking up to this building, the ExCeL Centre in east London, excited to collect my race number for the London Marathon.