And not enough trained staff to fix it and no-one obliged to train staff or offer a worthwhile career path. Hence a shortage. Catch 22 - don't train or offer a decent career and no-one wants to work for you or train people with a view to a long term career and they will look for something better in the future and move-on. But hopefully in the profession they're qualified to do. My view is that it's better to train sufficient staff and offer careers to enough individuals to meet demand rather than scratching around for staff, poaching from other industries and having to provide ad-hoc training. This just perpetuates the situation we have now. Why do you think the NHS is offering R&R to MTO's under AfC?
I hope the VRCT has not just been a means of presenting the HPC with justification of a need to regulate the profession, with an ulterior motive of advancing Medical Physics, by using EBME and other engineering departments and interest from other sources to boost numbers then once regulation is on the way EBME the others are cast-off because regulation is "unworkable". We need more reassurance and input from VRCT, HPC and employers and consultation on this issue as Kevin Haylett has already commented on.
