For Professionals
Extraordinary You
Published by the Department of Health, this publication celebrates the careers of healthcare scientists working across the NHS, including many IPEM members.
The book profiles the wide range of pioneering work of nearly 100 individual healthcare scientists working across the specialisms, to inspire people about the role of healthcare science and to encourage others to join the profession.
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Recommendations for the Design of X-ray Facilities and the Quality Assurance of Dental Cone Beam CT (Computed Tomography Systems)
Recently Published by the Health Protection Agency
This report provides guidance on two important areas of radiation protection related to dental cone beam CT equipment. Guidance is provided for Radiation Protection Advisers (RPAs) involved in the design of X-ray facilities and for RPAs, medical physicists and others involved in the acceptance/commissioning testing or routine performance evaluation of dental cone beam CT equipment.
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Voice of Young Scientists Media Guide
Standing up for Science - A Guide to the Media for Young Scientists
This is a lively informal guide to the inner workings of the media with practical tips how early career scientists can get involved.
It was developed by a group of young scientists following the Voice of Young Scientists Workshops organised by the Sense about Science organisation.
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IPEM sponsors these workshops and the guide with various supplementary material is available to download for free.
Working with Patients
Many Clinical Scientists and Technologists have contact with patients. These guidelines identify the major factors that are required to ensure that the way that they interact with patients is professional, effective and considerate.
It must be remembered that ultimate responsibility for patients' care lies with appropriate medical staff but Clinical Scientists and Technologists are responsible for their own conduct. An essential requirement for good practice is a close working relationship among all staff involved in a patient's care, including the mutual recognition and respect of all staffs' roles, skills and responsibilities.
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A Guide to Understanding the Implications of the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations in Radiotherapy
Produced by the The Royal College of Radiologists, Society and College of Radiographers, and the IPEM.
This guide will be of benefit to chief executives, medical directors, human resources departments and all professionals involved in the delivery of radiotherapy.
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Protection of Pregnant Patients during Diagnostic Medical Exposures to Ionising Radiation
New guidance from HPA, RCR and CoR on the protection of pregnant patients during x-ray and nuclear medicine examinations.
HPA has published new advice* for the protection of the foetus when pregnant women are referred for diagnostic medical procedures involving ionising radiation. It updates similar advice published by NRPB in 1998. As before, the document was prepared in collaboration with The Royal College of Radiologists and the Society and College of Radiographers and is aimed at hospital staff working in radiology and nuclear medicine departments.
The scientific basis of the advice has been reviewed in the light of the latest epidemiological evidence and estimates of the fetal doses for common diagnostic procedures have been updated. The only possible effect of these fetal doses is a small increase in the risk of childhood cancer and detailed practical guidance is given on how to avoid inadvertent exposures of pregnant patients that could lead to significant risks for the unborn child.
* Protection of Pregnant Patients during Diagnostic Medical Exposures to Ionising Radiation, Doc of HPA, RCE-9, March 2009. 31 March 2009
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On target: ensuring geometric accuracy in radiotherapy
Produced by the The Royal College of Radiologists, Society and College of Radiographers, and the IPEM.
This report provides guidance on how to improve the accuracy of radiotherapy.It explains the significance of the systematic and random errors present in even the best-run departments and lays out methodologies for measuring and minimising such errors.
By providing clear guidance it will assist in accurate and reproducible radiotherapy delivery.
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Towards Safer Radiotherapy
Published April 2008, ISBN: 978 1 905034 25 3
The purpose of this document is to look at ways of reducing errors in radiotherapy which are caused by individual human error or failure of systems or work. Though this report is primarily aimed at the Radiotherapy community and healthcare organsiations with radiotherapy facilities, it is hoped that it will also provide a source of information for other healthcare professionals, patients and other interested parties.
The report has, therefore, been written in a way that also enables non-specialists to understand and appreciate the issues under consideration without the need for extensive additional reading.
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Specialist Equipment Services for Disabled People - The Need for Change
A discussion document
From the President of the Royal College of Physicians and the President of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine Technology offers many disabled people enhanced ability, greater independence and a lesser dependence upon others.
Much is readily and cheaply available, but whilst the numbers of people able to gain advantage from it increase, equipment services often lack the coordination and the expertise to deliver it effectively. This is especially so when there is need to configure and integrate electronic and computer based systems and technologies.
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Sense about Science
Scientists, engineers and medical professionals have come together to counter public misinformation about radiation and health effects.
The scientists, working with Sense About Science, have identified some of the tools and insights that they themselves rely on, in the hope it might help to deliver to the public a clearer picture of what radiation is, what it does and what it can't do. The guide published offers some familiarisation with the areas of discussion and controversy, and helps people to question things they've heard or read about radiation.
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Implementing in vivo dosimetry
This is a guidance document on implementing in vivo dosimetry produced by the The Royal College of Radiologists, Society and College of Radiographers, Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and the British Institute of Radiology.
These notes for radiotherapy organisations are intended to highlight a range of issues to be considered en route to the full implementation of IVD. They are not intended to limit the range of options available to radiotherapy centres or be prescriptive.
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Radioiodine in the management of benign thyroid disease : Clinical Guidelines
Published June 2007. These guidelines update those first published by the Royal College of Physicians in 1995.
Contents:
- Overview of radioiodine therapy
- Administration of radioiodine
- Management of the first year following radioiodine therapy for thyrotoxicosis
- Monitoring and follow-up after the first year.
Appendices:
- Special precautions
- Information for patients
- Sample consent form
- Sample patient information card
- Elements of a system to support long-term follow-up of patients treated with radioiodine
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