Nurses Have Different Functions

If you are ever unfortunate enough to end up in hospital there are a number of key people who you are likely to meet. Each one is trained to a high standard and provides a particular type of work that is important to a hospital. Three of the most likely ones you are to have dealings with are the nurses, the...

National Health Service Radiographers

There are two types of Radiographers in the National Health Service. They are the diagnostic radiographers and the therapeutic radiographer. Both need to be trained to degree level with intimate knowledge of the human body yet both with slightly separate skills to enable them to perform their particular...

Professional Radiographers

Diagnosis radiographers are just one of the two types of radiographers we have in hospitals today but what exactly do they do? Well firstly these health professionals are highly trained and very skilful with a variety of important functions that we couldn’t do without. Firstly radiographers prepare...

Types Of Radiographers

There are two types of radiographers; diagnostics and therapeutics. Both require a high standard of training including anatomy, physiology and pathology to carry out their work effectively. The NHS employs over 90% of all radiographers with the remaining 10% being found in a number of private clinics...

Diagnostic Radiographers

Diagnostic radiographers perform an important function within today’s health service. As the name suggests they perform functions relating to the diagnosis of conditions as opposed to the therapeutic radiographers who work with treatments such as for cancer. Diagnostic radiographers will do things such...

Radiographer Medical Careers

Like many of the medical careers Radiographers have their own society called The Society of Radiographers. They represent over 90 percent of therapeutic and diagnostic radiographers in the United Kingdom. They are there to represent the interests of radiographers in terms of their educational, professional,...

NHS Employs Health Professionals

The NHS employs a wide range of health professionals that cover every aspect of the body from diagnosis right through to treatments from trainee nurses right through to neurosurgeons. One particular job is that of the radiographers whose job can be split into two categories; that of the therapeutic...

Radiographers Can Do Two Types Of Work

When I was a kid at school I managed to fracture my arm playing softball. After initially being miss-diagnosed by the school nurse I eventually ended up at hospital after two agonisingly painful days at home. Once there I was told I needed an x-ray and there came my first site of radiographers. Radiographers...

NHS Radiographers

To work in the NHS which 90% of all radiographers in this country do you must be registered. To be registered you need a degree in radiography from a Health Professions Council approved education centre. Without this you will not be able to get a job as a radiographer. A radiographer’s degree course is...

Therapeutic Radiographers

One type of radiographer is the therapeutic radiographer whose job is very different to that of the diagnostic radiographer. While the diagnostic radiographer diagnoses using a number of items of technology the therapeutic radiographer will treat conditions already diagnosed. There are a variety of...