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Radiographer retires from South Warwickshire trust after 60 years
Radiographer Patricia Beamish has retired from working in the radiology department at the South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust after 60 years in the profession.
She celebrated her 80th birthday in October last year. After having tried to retire several times over the course of her career, Ms Beamish decided “the time was right” to leave the profession in February of this year.
After qualifying in 1963 from Birmingham General Hospital, she remained with the trust for three years, before moving to Birmingham Women’s Hospital (BWH) in 1966, where she was head of the radiology department.
Ms Beamish worked there for four years before taking a 12-year break to have her two sons.
She then returned to work at BWH for a further four years, before her family moved to Stratford in 1986.
It was there Ms Beamish began her “long association”, firstly with Stratford Hospital, and then at Warwick Hospital, with the SWFT.
Wythenshawe radiographer takes on Nepal charity trek for hard of hearing children
Peter Rooke, a Manchester-based radiographer, is joining a group of 20 in embarking on the Langtang trek, in an event organised by UK-registered charity Adventure Boutique Foundation, which supports underprivileged communities around the world.
The Langtang Trek is a 48-mile (77km) hiking route in Nepal, covering challenging terrain and typically completed in around a week.
Peter’s journey, for which he hopes to raise £500, will help renovate a residential school for hard of hearing children.
The school is in an area devastated by the 2015 earthquake, which killed 9,000 people in Nepal. The village of Langtang accounted for 243 of these deaths, and has been rebuilt by the local community following significant damage caused by the quake. Peter's trek includes a visit to the school, where the group of 20 will help in the renovation.
Peter has climbed many of the mountains in Britain, including Ben Nevis and Snowdon, and has a “great love of the outdoors and nature.”
To donate to Peter’s charity trek and support the AB Foundation’s goal, click here.
MRI inventor honoured with plaque at Northampton General Hospital
A plaque unveiled at Northampton General Hospital on 20 April honours Professor John Rowland Mallard, a medical physicist who led the team of scientists responsible for the invention of the MRI scanner.
The mayor and mayoress of Northampton were joined by the Northampton Hereditary Freemen's Trustees, managers from the hospital's radiology department, and members of John's family at the hospital's MRI department for the event.
John was born profoundly deaf in 1927 in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, to a local grocer, and passed away in 2021.
After working as an assistant physicist at the Liverpool Radium Institute, he moved to Hammersmith Hospital in 1953, taking up the post of senior physicist in the Royal Postgraduate Medical School of the University of London.
John built the first whole-body radio-isotope scanner in 1957, now on display at the London Science Museum, and also developed the first gamma camera. He began to develop MRI technology while working in Aberdeen in 1980.
Radiographer becomes UK's second-ever nuclear medicine consultant at 29
Radiographer Rose Hazell-Evans at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has achieved the title of consultant in nuclear medicine, becoming the second ever person in the UK to do so, at the age of just 29.
She follows in the footsteps of Jo Weekes, who achieved the position in 2019.
Rose said she was “very proud” of achieving the title so young.
She leads on the provision of the nuclear medicine imaging service, including ensuring equipment is run in a safe, efficient and effective manner, while maintaining an expert level of technical knowledge within the modality.
Rose completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Suffolk in diagnostic radiography. After graduating in 2015, she immediately went on to start a part-time MSc in nuclear medicine at King’s College London, while working clinically.
She has since gone on to finish a Postgraduate Diploma in advanced practice at the University of the West of England, which was focused towards nuclear medicine reporting.
Dorset radiographers to walk Jurassic Coast for charity
To help Dorset County Hospital open an emergency and critical care department, three members of the radiology department are undertaking the Jurassic Coast.
Lead radiographer Sarah Landeg, service manager Julia Morris, and business manager Molly Irwin will walk the “very hilly” and “currently muddy” Jurassic Coast on 18 May, covering 100 km (62 miles) in a continuous effort in less than 30 hours.
The trio are undertaking the challenge to help raise money for the Dorset County Hospital Charity, which fundraises to support the hospital.
Dorset County Hospital (DCH) is currently facing insufficient capacity in its emergency and critical care unit to meet both current and future demand.
The emergency department was built for around 22,000 attendances per year. In 2021/22, the unit received more than double this capacity, at 50,119.
To meet demand DCH now plans to build a new emergency department and critical unit to “significantly improve” the hospital’s capacity, and transform the experience for patients and families.
To support DCH’s capital appeal and the radiographers’ walk along the Jurassic Coast, donate here.
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South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
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Rose Hazell-Evans, via West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
University of Aberdeen
Julia Morris
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