Denis Remedios, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Dr Denis Remedios is a Clinical Radiologist at Northwick Park Hospital, London, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Imperial College School of Medicine. A graduate of Cambridge University and Westminster Medical School, his clinical interests include musculoskeletal and sports imaging. In the field of radiology quality and safety, he chaired the Royal College of Radiologists’ Guidelines Working Party from 2003 to 2018, now serving as RCR Global Ambassador. He led the production of the 6th to 8th Editions of iRefer: Making the best use of clinical radiology helping integration with Clinical Decision Support. He has been a member of the RCR Clinical Radiology Audit and Quality Improvement Committee for over 20 years and led the 2021 UK National IR(ME)R Audit for radiation protection. International work includes leading the European Commission Guidelines Project, RP 178 and several consultations, workshops and missions for the International Atomic Energy Agency and World Health Organization since 2008.
Tracy Bradshaw, Care Quality Commission
Qualified as a Diagnostic Radiographer (2003) with an MSc in Computed Tomography (2017). Tracy spent the first 25 years of her career in the Royal Army Medical Corps joining in 1998 as a Private Soldier and trained as a paramedic. She cut her military medical teeth on operational tours of Macedonia, Kosovo and Bosnia working the blue light ambulance matrix and emergency department of the UK Field Hospital. In 2000 she commenced her undergraduate studies and supported numerous radiography deployments to the UK Field Hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2012 Tracy commissioned as a late entry officer with responsibilities initially as Head of Cadre for the Army Radiographers and Capability and on promotion to Major was assigned as the Defence Specialist Advisor to the MoD for Radiography. Her role was varied and expansive, with responsibility for the through life career management of military radiographers in the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force, professional development, training, equipment, capability, deployments, policy, procedure and protocol for all radiography capability across the globe, including Libya, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Mali.
In 2023 Tracy retired from service and started working at the CQC as the IR(ME)R manager.
Ashley Smith, Care Quality Commission
Ashley is the IR(ME)R modality lead for diagnostic imaging at the Care Quality Commission. He is a Clinical Scientist and has previously worked for the NHS in Manchester and London. He has a keen interest in radiation protection and optimisation.
Alastair McGown, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland
Alastair started his career in regulation as an environmental health officer in 1993. He spent time in Local Government for 15 years and developed an interest in health safety regulation. This included a secondment to the Health and Safety Executive for three and half years where he worked in the partnership team strengthening the working relationships between the HSE and Local authorities and was the national lead for the catering and hospitality industries. He joined the Healthcare Environment Inspectorate (HEI), part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland, at its inception in 2009, as an associate inspector. HEI was set up to provide the first independent scrutiny of the management of infection prevention and control practices in the NHS in Scotland through a rigorous inspection framework. During this role he inspected hospitals all around Scotland and seen the changes that external scrutiny can encourage. For the past four years he has been the senior inspector for IR(ME)R and recently joined the regulation team within Healthcare Improvement Scotland. He has had a focus on the regulatory duties under IR(ME)R and undertaken inspections and engagement across Scotland in a variety of services and activities and has the pleasure if visiting every Health Board to undertake inspections, respond to notifications and discuss IR(ME)R implementation. He has supported the positive engagement with NHS service providers, professional groups, and other regulator to support consistency and implementation of IR(ME)R in Scotland.
Stephen O'Connor, The Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority
Stephen has worked as a nurse from October 1995 and has since worked in a variety of clinical care settings. Stephen joined The Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) in 2012 as an inspector in the independent health care (IHC) team and is currently the assistant director for the IHC team.
RQIA is the independent body responsible for monitoring and inspecting the availability and quality of health and social care services in Northern Ireland, and encouraging improvements in the quality of those services. In Northern Ireland, responsibility for monitoring and inspecting of IR(ME)R passed to RQIA on 15 March 2010. One of the responsibilities of the IHC team is assessing compliance with IR(ME)R 2018 in both the Health and Social Care (HSC) sector and in the independent health care sector.
The IHC team undertake a rolling programme of IR(ME)R inspections supported by the Medical Exposure Group (MEG), United Kingdom Health Security Agency. The rolling IR(ME)R inspection programme includes all modalities (diagnostic and interventional radiology; nuclear medicine and radiotherapy).