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I was watching the BBC Panorama edition that aired on the May 26th 2021 called: Are you scared yet, Human? ‘As artificial intelligence changes our world, it has sparked a new arms race between China and the US. Experts warn that without urgent regulation, we could lose control’. It focused […]

Will facial recognition technology ultimately allow fully autonomous radiotherapy delivery, ...

4 Aug, 2021 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

What is a brand? “The term brand refers to a business and marketing concept that helps people identify a particular company, product, service or individual. Brands are intangible, which means you can’t actually touch or see them. As such, they help shape people’s perceptions of companies, their products, services or […]

How do we solve Radiotherapy’s PR problem, do we urgently ...

4 Jul, 2021 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

What really needs to be done to break the chain ...

18 Jun, 2021 in Uncategorised by rpadmin

Action Radiotherapy is the UK’s only charity dedicated to improving radiotherapy treatment. The charity believes that every cancer patient in the UK should have access to the best radiotherapy treatment available.

Action Radiotherapy Champions Network

16 Jun, 2021 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

Being a radiotherapy ‘dinosaur’ myself in relative terms these days it was alarming to find out while watching TV the other day that ‘Gypsum’ was the final nail in the dinosaur’s coffin when Plaster of Paris was a regular part of my working day as a therapeutic radiographer! Gypsum is […]

Chicxulub was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 ...

2 Jun, 2021 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

A blog by Elizabeth Kelly, a student therapeutic radiographer at Sheffield Hallam University . My Quarter Life Crisis? How early is too early for a midlife crisis? 2019 had to have been the hardest year I’d ever had. I’d been working in community pharmacy for a number of years after […]

My Quarter Life Crisis?

18 May, 2021 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

The recently aired and hugely successful, award winning but emotionally challenging Channel 4 series ‘It’s A Sin’ focused on the lives of some members of the LGBT community living through the 1980’s AIDS epidemic. While watching the crisis developing at high-speed on TV it led me back to my time […]

It’s A Sin. The new television series by Russell T ...

30 Apr, 2021 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

With the ICR announcing that ‘Advanced radiotherapy must play central role’ in clearing Covid’s cancer backlog’ and that only 8% of people surveyed consider radiotherapy cutting edge with others ‘sceptical’, what should we do right now to solve radiotherapy’s PR problem? Read more: https://www.icr.ac.uk/news-archive/advanced-radiotherapy-must-play-central-role-in-clearing-covid-s-cancer-backlog Aside from a new policy of […]

How do we solve Radiotherapy’s PR problem?

20 Apr, 2021 in Uncategorised by rpadmin

The home of the first Magnetic Resonance Imaging body scanner, BrewDog, Oil and honeymoon ready, golden sandy beaches…the ‘Granite City’ of Aberdeen had it all, except the weather! In radiotherapy, Elekta and ViewRay have picked up the MRI baton and ran with it! In 2007 and just a few months […]

The home of the first Magnetic Resonance Imaging body scanner, ...

1 Apr, 2021 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

Cancer is fast, but so often our response is far too slow. I’ve spent almost 50 years trying to improve cancer services and access in the UK, succeeding in some areas but failing in others. COVID-19 and the restrictions which followed have placed an unprecedented need for cancer diagnosis and […]

A blog on Proton Beam Therapy from Professor Karol Sikora, ...

31 Mar, 2021 in Blog Posts by rpadmin

‘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