We are excited to announce that we have updated the criteria for this award and the focus is now on best practice in relation to radiation safety!
Closing date for applications is 31 May 2025 - Application form
What have you done to improve radiation safety in your setting?
The Radiation Safety Best Practice Award will be given to an individual or group who have demonstrated the best improvement in practice in relation to radiation safety. They may have designed a new resource, tool or process that has improved radiation safety for staff or patients or both.
Criteria:
- The applicant may have designed a new resource/tool to improve radiation safety, such as innovative software or a novel use of new technologies such as AI. It could consist of a device or object to warn, protect or assess protection provided. It could be a new concept to challenge or enhance current thinking on radiation safety. Or the applicant may have improved services, communication or pathways to make radiation safety more efficient or better understood.
- Applications will be accepted from radiologists, radiographers, radiation oncologists, medical physicists or equivalent, including trainees.
- The winner(s) will be required to write a short piece about their project for publication in suitable media.
- The award amount is for £1000. An additional £500 will be allocated if the award winner attends the BIR Annual Congress or other relevant event to receive the award.
- Only BIR members are eligible to apply.
Winner of the 2023 award
Awarded to Dr John Kotre for his application based on The J-factor: towards quantitative justification for medical radiation exposure.
Above (left to right): Matthew Trevail (CT Modality Manager, GE Healthcare) Dr John Kotre and Professor Stephen Keevil.
Previous winner:
The winner of the 2017 prize is Mark Worrall, Ninewells Hospital, for his creation of a computational model to accurately estimate the thickness of an attenuator from a single digital radiograph. Mark was presented with his award at the BIR event: New Ionising Radiation Regulations: What does it Mean for Me? This took place in London on 26 September 2017.
Photograph: Left to right: Simon Hemsworth, Marketing Manager, Northern Europe (GE HealthCare), Mark Worrall, Andy Rogers, BIR President and Dawn Philips, Sales and Marketing Leader (GE HealthCare)
