East London trust selects a variety of QA systems

Raj Baskara of Oncology Systems Limited, healthcare science practitioner Sarah Khan, trainee healthcare scientist Ryan Fullarton, deputy head of radiotherapy physics Ghirmay Kidane and principal clinical scientist Jose Sanchez.

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust has enhanced its QA workflow and treatment plan system verification.  Among the range of systems in use, with others soon to be deployed, are Compass and Dolphin Patient QA from IBA, ImSimQA from Oncology Systems Limited and Modus Medical’s Quasar Penta-Guide phantom.

Deputy head of radiotherapy physics Ghirmay Kidane said: “Each step in the treatment process needs control and checking to prevent errors and provide clinical confidence that patients are on the correct pathway for their condition.

“To boost our QA, we identified that our two existing approaches of measurement-based and software-based patient QA needed integrating.  By introducing Compass QA that clinical requirement is satisfied.  The two-in-one solution provides calculation-based, full 3D independent treatment plan system verification and measurement-based quality assurance for the complete radiotherapy treatment chain.”

See the full report on page 32 of the December 2017 issue of RAD Magazine.