Partners reach across professions, bringing together the imaging community

If you bring any group of radiographers together, before long the conversation will turn to reminiscence. The days of wet processing, film-based imaging and exotic projection techniques long abandoned (do you remember the Stenvers views?). Looking back is what we love to do. So much has changed in imaging and radiotherapy services over the course of any career.

One thing that has been constant through the entire scope of my radiography memory (a mere 43 years) is RAD Magazine.

It is remarkable that RAD Magazine has been there in our departments, offices and sometimes even our homes for 50 years. In the 1980s and 90s the goal was to get to a copy before someone else had torn the jobs pages out.

At the outset, RAD Magazine developed from the newsletter of the London and Home Counties Branch of The Society of Radiographers. For many years, it is no secret that it was seen as a rival publication to Radiography Today and subsequently Synergy. However, in recent years, RAD Magazine and the SoR have healed the old disagreements, and I now see us very much as partners in communicating to the people that make up the amazing imaging and radiotherapy communities in the UK.

The ability to reach across professions, to include industry partners and suppliers is one of the successes of RAD Magazine. People like reading it because they see their friends and sometimes themselves. I think this is why there is so much affection for this publication and part of the reason for the 50 years of success.

Happy birthday RAD Magazine – I hope to help celebrate with you at UKIO this year.

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