Search Tag: Radiation safety
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
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
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
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
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
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
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