{"id":2337,"date":"2018-08-27T09:10:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T09:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2018-08-29T09:11:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T09:11:10","slug":"more-radiographers-needed-to-prevent-cancer-treatment-standstill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2018\/08\/27\/more-radiographers-needed-to-prevent-cancer-treatment-standstill\/","title":{"rendered":"More radiographers needed to prevent cancer treatment ‘standstill’"},"content":{"rendered":"

More radiographers are urgently needed if cancer patients are to receive their treatment on time, that’s according to the Society of Radiographers which is calling on the government to address the issue. Jo McNamara, admission lead for therapeutic radiography at Sheffield Hallam University, spoke to the Society of Radiographers<\/a> about the shortage. She said: “We train around a third of England\u2019s therapeutic radiographers and this year we have seen a significant reduction in applications, despite an increase in recruitment activity. Like other healthcare training providers across the country, we will be training less students this year and this will have a huge impact on the number of available graduates joining the healthcare workforce in three years\u2019 time.<\/p>\n

“This is without taking into account any attrition which may occur in future years.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More radiographers are urgently needed if cancer patients are to receive their treatment on time, that’s according to the Society of Radiographers which is calling on the government to address…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2258,"featured_media":2338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"More radiographers needed to prevent cancer treatment 'standstill'","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/08\/radiographers-cancer-treatment-standstill-gallery.jpg?fit=1028%2C624&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8KEAX-BH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2124,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2018\/07\/04\/hallam-chosen-to-lead-project-to-recruit-a-more-diverse-healthcare-workforce\/","url_meta":{"origin":2337,"position":0},"title":"Hallam chosen to lead project to recruit a more diverse healthcare workforce","author":"Sarah Briscoe","date":"July 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Sheffield Hallam University is one of only six higher education institutions to receive funding for a project that seeks to increase the number of students studying on specialist healthcare courses. 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