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This is NOT the best time to join the NHS

12 May 2020

AUTHOR: DEAN ROGERS, DIRECTOR OF INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY & MEMBER RELATIONS

The Society welcomes the campaign to recruit people to work as allied health professionals in the NHS: it is long overdue. But, the positive message is spoilt by the false claim at the end of the video that "There has never been a better time to join us."
Designing a radiographer reporting service to cope with pressures of Covid-19

11 May 2020

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.
Should healthcare be funded like the UK's military services?

01 May 2020

AUTHOR: DEAN ROGERS, DIRECTOR OF INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY AND MEMBER RELATIONS

The language of 'frontline' and 'NHS Heroes' implies that healthcare is the new defence. Radiographers and other staff are synonymous with military personnel. This is the opportunity to secure the level of special funding and support usually reserved for the defence budget.
What it's like to be a radiographer at London's Nightingale Hospital

01 May 2020

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.
Covid-19 pandemic means as many as '2000 cancer cases a week may go undiagnosed'

01 May 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has created 'significant challenges' at various points in the cancer pathway and as many as '2000 cases a week may go undiagnosed', according to the SCoR and the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR).
Overseas radiographers included in visa extension

30 April 2020

After concerted lobbying by the Society and the other allied health professional trade unions, the Home Office has confirmed the one year visa extension will cover all AHPs.

The programme to renew visas due to expire before 1 October 2020 had previously only applied to NHS doctors, nurses and paramedics.
What is happening to the rest of the NHS and non-Covid19 patients?

30 April 2020

AUTHOR: CHARLOTTE BEARDMORE, DIRECTOR OF PROFESSIONAL POLICY

As the Covid-19 emergency continues, many radiographers and clinical staff are understandably concerned about what is happening to 'other patients': those who urgently need diagnosis and treatment.

It isn't true or fair to say that the NHS has been doing nothing but caring for coronavirus patients but, naturally, services have been radically refocussed on getting us through the pandemic.
New guidance: Obstetric ultrasound examinations during the pandemic

27 April 2020

Four professional bodies have published a joint statement on the recording of ultrasound examinations and the use of private ultrasound providers during the Covid-19 pandemic, providing guidance to their members, providers and service users.
'My smile can no longer be seen'

27 April 2020

Check out therapeutic radiographer Jo Strickland’s blog ‘Behind the Mask’ on the Action Radiotherapy website, about the challenges of delivering radiotherapy whilst wearing PPE.

Jo, radiotherapy team leader at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, south east London, describes how she is finding alternative ways of reassuring and treating her patients: ‘…my smile can no longer be seen, hidden instead by a mask that is all at once necessary, protective and stifling.
Society tells Matt Hancock 'You misled the clinical community'

22 April 2020

The SoR has sent a second letter to the Secretary of State for Health, telling him that "it is difficult to believe anything you or your officials say."

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