Welcome to the Medical Physics Department
The Medical Physics department at Royal Surrey comprises five different sections, providing expert scientific input to medical services:
- Regional Radiation Protection Service: Provide physics expertise to diagnostic radiology services across a wide geographical footprint, including over 300 external NHS and private healthcare providers
- Nuclear Medicine Physics: Provide physics expertise to Nuclear Medicine Services to deliver diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine procedures.
- Radiotherapy Physics: Provide physics expertise to Radiotherapy to provide external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy services.
- Scientific Computing: Provide scientific computing expertise to develop a wide range of bespoke software to support the other Medical Physics sections, clinical services and large-scale research projects.
- National Co-ordinating Centre for the Physics of Mammography, run on behalf of Public Health England and provide physics expertise to the NHSBreast Screening Programme.
The Medical Physics department comprises approximately 110 staff members, spread across the five different Medical Physics sections including clinical scientists, computer scientists, technical staff, dosimetrists, radiographers, administrative and nursing staff. Additionally, there is a strong focus on training, and the department routinely hosts 5 placement students as part of their undergraduate degrees and 11-14 trainees on the NHSCS Scientist Training Programme.
The department is active in research, holding a number of research grants and maintaining a significant research output in terms of publications and presentations at major national and international conferences. The department are also part of a Medical Physics Collaboration with the University of Surrey and National Physical Laboratory
The Medical Physics department has offices both within the Royal Surrey County Hospital and on the SurreyResearch Park.