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‘Teenage Kicks’, my journey from Northwood to Belfast was better late than never and certainly not back to the future! While the radiotherapy department in Londonderry Derry that opened in 2016 underscored the impact of the peace process. The Undertones Teenage Kicks, was the hit record by Derry punk band […]

‘Teenage Kicks’, my journey from Northwood to Belfast was better ...

1 Mar, 2021 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

With the #CatchUpWithCancer campaign demanding an urgent super-boost of radiotherapy services in the UK to counter the dramatic effects on cancer patients due to Covid19, lockdowns and long-term underfunding, we ask you what should the priorities be for our sector? You can answer Yes or No to one or more […]

#CatchUpWithCancer Survey

5 Feb, 2021 in Uncategorised by rpadmin

Even Donald Trump is not bigger than this medium With the world under the grip of an even bigger wave of a new variant coronavirus, many country’s health services in meltdown and their populations in the throes of further severe lockdowns, Donald Trump has just had his twitter feed suspended […]

Radiotherapy and Twitter, what’s your opinion!

1 Feb, 2021 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

I look at 2 key treatment areas and offer some thoughts on the future. Introduction, well where do we start! In the UK at least, it seems that IORT is still sadly an ‘outlier’ with the cost of equipment sometimes prohibitive and the MDT collaboration required to deliver this in […]

With Covid secure radiotherapy delivery now critical in the present ...

12 Jan, 2021 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

Ensuring the safety of our staff and patients will always be the number one priority at Rutherford Cancer Centres. This was the case long before the COVID-19 crisis and it will continue to be the case going forward. When the pandemic began all the way back in March, two things […]

A blog on patient and staff safety during the COVID-19 ...

22 Dec, 2020 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

I was 39 and had never sat on a horse bar a donkey on the beach in Eastbourne on an early holiday with my parents as a very young child. My friend who had recently introduced me to the delights of going horse racing and betting a couple of years […]

Being a therapeutic radiography student was very much like riding ...

17 Dec, 2020 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

Back in March 2020 Professor Karol Sikora set up a twitter feed with one overriding and simple message that with the impending Corona virus pandemic, he thought ‘cancer patients were going to be thrown under the bus’. In June we held our first Q and A with Professor Sikora on […]

The RadPro Christmas Twitter Q and A with Professor Karol ...

15 Dec, 2020 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

My story of being a first-year therapeutic radiography student during COVID, a blog by Neil Dunn at SHU I distinctly remember writing those words in an email to a friend some 15 years ago. It reflected a growing discontent within myself about my career path. Not that I was stuck […]

I want to do something more with my life, but ...

1 Dec, 2020 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

Raysearch Video

24 Nov, 2020 in Uncategorised by rpadmin

I thought I was the next James Dyson but my vacuum technology was not disruptive enough! However, in radiotherapy we continue to disrupt current working practices with the latest innovations. What is Disruptive Technology? According to Investopedia it is this: “Disruptive technology is an innovation that significantly alters the way […]

I thought I was the next James Dyson but my ...

4 Nov, 2020 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

How wrong you were Jeremy! On the 22nd December 2019 in his final Sunday Times article of the year, Jeremy Clarkson ended by saying the following in relation to the red wall falling to the Conservatives the last election and these voters looking to Boris Johnson to turn back time: […]

Things we didn’t see coming! One of the ...

1 Oct, 2020 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

My “Exam-Shambles” meant my life fundamentally changed in 1980 The recent “Exam-Shambles” where A level exam results were doctored by an algorithm and then revised back to the marks estimated by the pupil’s teachers took me right back to 1980 when I became a student therapy radiographer. The fact that […]

Recession proof careers to Flash-RT, does radiotherapy really have a ...

7 Sep, 2020 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

News-Zone Focus Innovations in Radiotherapy Our leading monthly industry profile of the latest products and services in radiotherapy. This month we feature Mevion Medical Systems NEW MEVION PROTON COUCHTOP CIVCO’S UNIVERSAL COUCHTOP VALIDATED BY MEVION MEDICAL SYSTEMS The full line of Proton Series products are available on MEVION S250 Series […]

RadPro 365 Live News-Zone for July 2020

24 Jul, 2020 in Uncategorised by rpadmin

We have released our August blog a few days earlier than normal and I usually write my blog about stories and anecdotes from my past 40 years working in radiotherapy as both a clinical radiographer and in business, running radiotherapy companies while creating products and services. However, something critical is […]

Britain’s Covid19 Cancer Crisis explored. The August 2020 Blog from ...

23 Jul, 2020 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

The end of World War 2 in Europe and developments in Radiotherapy are intrinsically linked. We take a look at the earliest computer-based treatment planning systems, recent advances to AI and Machine Learning to plan precision radiotherapy while initially bow to the computer scientists who shortened World War 2 saving […]

The recent VE Day 75th anniversary was celebrated with bunting, ...

3 Jul, 2020 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

AN MP has called for a quicker rollout of new radiotherapy treatment to deal with the waiting list for cancer treatment caused by the coronavirus pandemic and to ‘stop lives being unnecessarily lost’. Tim Farron, MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale, pressed ministers on the issue in the House of Commons […]

Tim Farron urges Government to ‘stop lives being unnecessarily lost’ ...

1 Jul, 2020 in Uncategorised by rpadmin

Our introduction In an era of lockdown and the Covid-19 pandemic, more and more people are taking to social media to make their point and have their voice or that of others, heard. This makes sense, as while people are social distancing, self-isolating, working from home or in quarantine there […]

The RadPro Q and A with Professor Karol Sikora

8 Jun, 2020 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

A look at the formative days of neutron and proton radiotherapy and many other fast things in my sphere including Fast-Forwarding to new radiotherapy techniques due to Covid-19. My hair was long and my shoes turquoise when I had my eventually successful interview to become a radiotherapy radiography student at […]

No sleep ‘till Hammersmith. From Fast Neutrons to Fast Eddie ...

2 Jun, 2020 in Blog Posts by rpadmin