Patient (or person) centred care is a hot topic in health and social care, driven by increasing demands on the national health service, and increasing expectations of patients and their carers. All of us at one time or another have received…

Just over three years ago I retired as an academic reader at the University of Salford. I had started my career as a diagnostic radiographer some 38 years earlier, enrolling in the Bradford School of Radiography in 1980. I enjoyed a varied…

UK prostate cancer care is at a critical juncture. At the start of 2020, it was confirmed that prostate cancer had overtaken breast cancer as the most commonly diagnosed cancer in England – ten years ahead of previous estimates. The news…

I am a recently qualified band 5 radiographer. I am writing this piece to give an insight into how it is to currently work as a clinically vulnerable radiographer. Coronavirus has caused a widespread pandemic, affecting the respiratory…