Medical physics

About Medical Physics

Medical physics and engineering applies science and technology for the benefit of the sick. Medical physics departments are mainly concerned with nuclear medicine, radiotherapy, radiology and various aspects of physiological monitoring and investigation, as well as contributing to specialities ranging from anaesthetics to urology.

Much of the medical physics department’s work focuses around developing techniques to show what is happening in the body, for example X-ray, nuclear medicine with radioactive drugs and gamma cameras and ultrasound scanning.

Our medical physics departments have four main sections:

  1. Nuclear medicine conducts imaging based on radioactive labelled pharmaceuticals, some therapeutic procedures and bone mineralization estimations.
  2. Clinical measurements are responsible for a variety of physiological measurements.
  3. Radiation protection provides radiation and laser protection advice to the Trust regarding statutory legislation and supplies a Trust-wide physics support to diagnostics radiology.
  4. Radiotherapy physics is responsible for the physics service to clinical oncology for the provision of the radiotherapy service to Lincolnshire.

Medical physics services are provided at Lincoln County Hospital, Grantham and District Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital, Boston.

Clinical Engineering

Clinical engineering involves scientists and engineers ensuring that medical equipment is installed, used and maintained correctly and safely.

The Clinical Engineering Department provides services across the whole Trust and has departments based at Lincoln County Hospital, Grantham and District Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital, Boston.