Priorities

• To provide expert advice on medical imaging services to the NSW Ministry of Health and local health districts.
• To provide advice on the appropriate provision of radionuclide therapies in the NSW health system.
• To provide expert advice on a radiopharmaceutical scientists’ proposal to the NSW Ministry of Health to assist recruitment and retention of highly skilled professionals.
• To conduct a pilot to film uncommon nuclear medicine therapies and procedures to support best practice by nuclear medicine technologists and university students.
  

Achievements

• Radionuclide Therapies in NSW Brief developed for NSW Health to raise awareness about best-practice care for cancer patients.
• Collaboration agreement with the Cancer Institute NSW to improve knowledge, advice and services for NSW cancer patients.
• Uncommon therapies and procedures matrix developed across Nuclear Medicine Departments to assist those where these procedures are less common.