Imaging workload and workforce strategies

6.30 - 8.00 pm

Review of the reporting radiographer workforce in the North West of England (NWE) – Projectional imaging (PI)

Professor Julie Bridson, Professor of Medical Education and Director of the North West England Imaging Training Academy
&
Gill Holroyd, Professional Lead for Imaging at the North West England Imaging Training Academy

Talk synopsis:

The North West England (NWE) Imaging Training Academy (NWEITA) undertook a scoping exercise regarding PI reporting by reporting radiographers (RR) across 24 NHS hospitals in NWE to determine current workforce establishment, scope of practice, governance issues and to identify education/training/CPD needs for RRs.

This was a mixed-methods questionnaire study with data collected between 23/06/23-27/09/23. Quantitative/qualitative data were analysed and themed.

100% returned data and there are 92% hospitals in NWE with RRs reporting PI.

Headline results and recommendations will be presented.

 

Recovery strategies for imaging services and sharing best practice

Deborah Mitchell, Diagnostics Programme Director, Humber and North Yorkshire Collaboration of Acute Providers
&
Dr Victoria Birkett, Consultant Radiologist, York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Lead for HNY Imaging Network

Talk synopsis:

The NW journey and how this has been applied to a system and the transferable learning will be described in this presentation.

 

This course provides 2 CPD Credits in accordance with the CPD Scheme of the Royal College of Radiologists.

CPD certificates will be awarded to attendees.