Radiographer From Musgrove Wins National Award

Main Category: Radiology / Nuclear Medicine
Article Date: 23 Feb 2009 - 4:00 PDT

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Fiona McElwaine, a Specialist Radiographer at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, has received a national award for her work developing dietary advice for patients undergoing certain diagnostic tests.

Fiona, who lives in Othery and has worked at Musgrove for over ten years, is part of a dynamic team of gastrointestinal radiographers at the hospital. She said "As a team we were aware that we have many patients in our department and throughout the Trust requiring a low residue diet as part of their preparation for diagnostic tests such as barium enema CT colonography and colonoscopy. To help advise patients on these restrictive diets I produced a poster and a range of easy-to-follow recipes developed in collaboration with our hospital dieticians."

The award was given at the National Gastrointestinal Radiographers Special Interest Group Conference. Recipes include Macaroni Cheese, Special Fish Pie and Pavlova, and are all available on the Musgrove Park Hospital website.

The attached picture shows Fiona with the poster she designed.

Musgrove Park Hospital Taunton is part of Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.

The hospital serves a population of 340,000 - primarily living in the area served by NHS South West. Each year almost 40,000 patients are admitted as emergencies; 10,000 patients are admitted for elective surgery; 26,000 are seen for day case surgery; 232,000 patients attend outpatient clinics; 48,000 attend Accident and Emergency, 170,000 diagnostic examinations take place and over 3000 babies are born in the Maternity Department. Almost 1000 patients are admitted to Critical Care each year.

Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has an annual budget of £180 million. The hospital has over 700 beds, 30 wards, 15 operating theatres, a fully equipped diagnostic imaging department and employs 4,145 staff.

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