“Medical Physics Department incorporates Nuclear Medicine Physics, Radiotherapy Physics, the Regional Radiation Protection Service, Scientific Computing, Technical Services and the National Coordinating Centre for the Physics of Mammography (NCCPM) run on behalf of the UK Health Security Agency. We provide internationally recognised medical physics services to the many clinical services within the Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and over 300 external Healthcare Providers”.
– Liz Adams, Interim Head of Medical Physics
Sections & Centres
The Regional Radiation Protection Service
The Regional Radiation Protection Service (RRPS) based in the Department of Medical Physics at the Royal Surrey County Hospital (RSCH) ...
Nuclear Medicine Physics
The Nuclear Medicine Physics Department is located within the St Luke’s Wing of the Royal Surrey County Hospital. We provide ...
The National Co-ordinating Centre for the Physics of Mammography
The National Co-ordinating Centre for the Physics of Mammography (NCCPM) is run on behalf of the NHS Breast Screening Programme ...
Radiotherapy Physics
The Radiotherapy Physics section is responsible for providing scientific services to the Radiotherapy Department of St Luke’s Cancer Centre, which ...
Scientific Computing
Scientific Computing’s remit covers involvement in a number of areas throughout the trust including Clinical Computing, Informatics and all sections ...
Latest News
Second Ethos Machine installed!
The departments second Varian Ethos machine has now been installed and is in use clinically.This second machine is live at ...
Medical Physics BBQ
The entire medical physics team got together for a BBQ at the Royal Surrey Social Club.It was great to see ...
Milestones achieved for Adaptive Treatments!
The Royal Surrey has recently achieved two significant milestones in the treatment of patients using Online Adaptive Radiotherapy. Using the ...
New Halcyon with SGRT and Hypersight being installed at Satellite centre
The team are currently nearling completion of the commissioning procedss for a new radiotherapy treatmetn machine. The machine is a ...
Physics Research Presented at ESTRO 2023 in Vienna
The radiotherapy physics department was represented at the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) annual congresses held in Vienna ...
Celebrating all Clinical Scientists
The hospital has over 200 healthcare scientists working in different disciplines. To mark Healthcare Science Week (13-19 March 2023) a ...
Radiotherapy department reaches significant milestone for Adaptive Radiotherapy
The radiotherapy department at St Luke's Cancer Centre, Guildford has reached a significant milestone for delivering cutting-edge treatments. The team ...
New publication on implementing adaptive radiotherapy for cervical cancer patients
You can now read the recently published work completed in the radiotherapy department on how they have implemented online adaptive ...
Perfectly formed ‘second skin’ will improve radiation treatment for cancer patients
A new 3D printer has been installed in the radiotherapy department. Mark Long and Matt Bolt are leading the introduction ...
Royal Surrey’s Adaptive Radiotherapy featured in radmagazine
The December 2022 issue of radmagazine features a discussion centred around the Royal Surrey's experience with the Varian Ethos system ...