Two new documents highlight therapy staffing issues
 The Society and College has published Radiographic Staffing: Short Term Guidance - 2005 Benchmark for Standard Core Functions within Radiotherapy PDF and Positioning Therapeutic Radiographers within Cancer Services: Delivering Patient-Centred Care PDF.
The first document contains a benchmarking figure to assist managers locally in reaching a baseline-staffing number. Once this baseline has been established, the Society and College believes that more comprehensive staffing models, based upon greater skill mix, will then be able to be developed at the local level. It is anticipated that these models will be based upon skills mix across the entire radiotherapy workforce. In the longer term, the baseline figure within the document may require adjustment to take account of these developments and the changing role that therapeutic radiographers will have within the service.
 The second document describes re-focusing the expert skills of therapeutic radiographers around the needs of the patient and across the radiotherapy pathway. Indeed, many of these new roles for therapeutic radiographers are emerging currently in an ad-hoc manner, to meet locally identified clinical needs and this is being used to inform the developing DH NRAG workforce plans.
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