Search Tag: Radiation safety

IMAGING Management

Applications-now-invited-for-the-bir-ge-radiation-safety-travel-award

2018 16 Oct

£1,000 funding offered for award designed to promote worldwide innovation in radiation safety.   The BIR/GE Radiation Safety Travel award aims to share best practice in radiation safety. Participants are asked to design a new tool or resource to improve radiation safety in healthcare. This could be innovative software or a novel use of new...Read more

IMAGING Management

Have-a-heart-campaign-aims-to-improve-paediatric-cardiac-imaging

2017 23 May

Following the recent publication of  Radiation Safety in Children With Congenital and Acquired Heart Disease: A Scientific Position Statement on Multimodality Dose Optimization from the Image Gently Alliance, the organisations concerned have joined forces on a campaign to improve use of cardiac imaging in children. The Have-A-Heart campaign is a multi-society...Read more

IMAGING Management

Bir-and-ge-healthcare-launch-new-radiation-safety-travel-award-1

2016 30 Nov

  (Left to right) Dawn Philips, Sales and Marketing Leader, GE Healthcare and Jacqueline Fowler, CEO at BIR £1,000 funding offered for award designed to promote worldwide innovation in radiation safety   The BIR/GE Radiation Safety Travel award is a new initiative which aims to share best practice in radiation safety. Participants are...Read more

IMAGING Management

Bir-and-ge-healthcare-launch-new-radiation-safety-travel-award

2016 28 Oct

(Left to right) Dawn Philips, Sales and Marketing Leader, GE Healthcare and Jacqueline Fowler, CEO at BIR. £1,000 funding offered for award designed to promote worldwide innovation in radiation safety   The BIR/GE Radiation Safety Travel award is a new initiative which aims to share best practice in radiation safety. Participants are asked...Read more

IMAGING Management

The-british-institute-of-radiology-launches-new-radiation-safety-guidance-for-healthcare-staff

2016 24 Sep

The British Institute of Radiology (BIR) has produced posters, videos and a book on personal protective equipment (PPE) for staff working with radiation, to help reduce exposure to diagnostic X- rays and develop radiation safety knowledge in and beyond the radiology department. The guidance gives practical advice on how staff should select, wear...Read more

IMAGING Management

Canada-safe-imaging-to-address-radiation-safety

2015 30 Nov

Canada is the latest country to set up an initiative to address radiation safety, with the announcement of Canada Safe Imaging. A coalition of key stakeholders is working on the formal launch of Canada Safe Imaging in the coming months, to address the need for a national strategy and action plan relating to radiation safety for medical imaging care...Read more

Health Management

Radiation-dose-communicating-with-patients

2014 08 Nov

Key Points • Radiology departments need to communicate with patients about radiation dose and contrast media to confirm with the new European directive. • Departments must track radiation dose, and be prepared for the additional workload this requires. • Radiation dose information and quality assurance can be a marketing tool for departments....Read more

IMAGING Management

Eurosafe-campaign-urges-radiologists-on

2014 15 Oct

The European Society of Radiology (ESR)’s EuroSafe Imaging campaign has issued a Europe-wide Call for Action in support of the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Bonn Call for Action launched in 2012. The EuroSafe Imaging Call for Action includes promoting  appropriateness in imaging, keeping radiation doses...Read more