Current guidance on non-medical prescribing of controlled drugs (CDs)is a misinterpretation the law as written. Over four years after obtaining legal right to prescribe Schedule 2 and 3 drugs, therapeutic radiographer paramedic independent prescribers are still being advised that they cannot do so by their professional regulator. This has arisen from one government department believing this nee...

IntroductionPeer review is frequently incorporated within radiographer reporting services. The aim of this study to establish peer systems used for radiograph reports provided by radiographers in London.MethodsAn online cross-sectional survey NHS diagnostic imaging departments was performed. Reporting demographics (number, frequency reporting, scope practice) and provide (review frequency, case...

Depuis un certain nombre d’années, le métier de Manipulateurs en ElectroRadiologie médicale (MER) présente peu d’attractivité et est quête reconnaissance professionnelle. Les évolutions thérapeutiques diagnostiques plus complexes, obligent les professionnels à développer leurs compétences pour assurer une prise charge qualité toute sécurité tous patients. Le premier rôle du MER d’être auprès de...

Dental research is greatly handicapped by the fact that the training of dental students has necessarily to contain so vast an amount of the purely mechanical. Secondly, the almost complete absence of full-time teaching or other dental appointments at the universities is a bar to research. Thirdly, the lack of co-operation between the medical specialists and the dentists is a great handicap to p...

Image quality in mammography encompasses several interlinking domains. Certain determinants of overall image quality are physical and unchangeable, such as the detector’s pixel size. Features of the image such as exposure, contrast and noise can be considered as being determined by an interaction between the system’s technical specifications and the operator, with the operator perhaps exerting ...