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 role.

To enable both the diagnostic and therapeutic radiographers to train the correct skills they need to decide which they wish to train for at the beginning of their university course. This enables them to not only study the exact correct skills but also to get experience in the right areas as they will spend half their time in real hospital doing real jobs.  

On top of the theory side of any university course the radiographers also need to know how to use some very complex expensive pieces of technology that are far from simple. If that isn’t enough they then need to know how to use the results of that machine. For example they need to know what the x-ray is telling them once they have taken it.

So as you can see a radiographer needs far more than just your average health professional. They need to know the human body, the technology and the skills to bring them together and interpret the results.