SCoR joins National Diagnostic Imaging Board
After years of complacent lack of engagement with diagnostics in general, the government is suddenly realising the importance of all forms of diagnosis.
The pressure is considerable to understand the issues and to lead effective changes in planning, designing, commissioning and staffing services in order to provide the improvements in capacity required. NHS services will increasingly work alongside independent providers and it is important that these relationships work properly if the shortcomings of the Alliance MRI contract are to be avoided in future.
The Department of Health are setting up boards to lead on each of the four areas of diagnostics: Pathology, Imaging, Endoscopy, and Clinical Measurement. The imaging board will be chaired by Dr Erica Denton from Norfolk and Norwich and will include representatives from the Royal College of Radiologists, the Department of Health, as well as Richard Evans, the Chief Executive Officer of the Society, Nicola Hind, Consultant Radiographer from Newcastle, and Glynis Wivell, Radiology Service Manager at Norfolk and Norwich.
The Board will communicate through the Head of Diagnostics to the NHS ‘Top Team’, comprised of SHA chief executives led by Sir Nigel Crisp.
Richard Evans would welcome feedback from managers. He says, “It would be really useful to me to have information from radiography managers on how their planning submissions are received. Are you ignored, or do you get the resources you need to run your services? Do ideas for innovation in service design get support? What are the major constraints that you experience in developing your departments?”
Thoughts, comments and experiences please to richarde@sor.org
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