There is a need to increase the commissions for the pre-registration therapeutic radiography and healthcare science workforce, due to the increasing provision of radiotherapy services and the introduction of the high energy proton service. The 2012 Radiotherapy Services in England report estimated that there needed to be a 39% increase in therapeutic radiography and 31% increase in radiotherapy physics workforce respectively between 2011 - 2016. However, there are significant challenges in developing the non-medical pre-registration workforce to meet this demand, notably high attrition rates, restricted placement capacity and willingness of young students to engage with the cancer pathway within therapeutic radiography and the introduction of the Modernising Scientific Careers (MSC) initiative within the healthcare science workforce. MSC has introduced a new career pathway and underpinning education programmes. However, for a significant proportion of the scientific and technical radiotherapy workforce, these have not yet been fully clarified and much work remains to be undertaken, to ensure both a sustainable supply of the pre-registration workforce and appropriate
development opportunities.

Innovative practice across the country has shown that although there is no “magic bullet”, successful multifaceted interventions can be made to meet the challenges. In addition there is the opportunity to utilise the new education tariff funding to support the learning experience of students within the practice setting. The presentation will explore these issues and enable an informed view to be taken of the required actions to meet the workforce challenges.

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