Overview

The Medical Physics Department provides clinical services for patients, develops devices to support clinicians and provides general scientific advice. 

These services are provided by a team of Clinical Scientists, Clinical Engineers, Clinical Technologists, Nurses and Secretarial staff. The service is also supported by two Radiologists, a Rheumatologist and a Cardiologist.

Our Team

  • Divisional Director, Vicky Mitchell
  • Assocate Divisional Director, Jess Hutchings
  • Directorate Manager, Rebecca Dempster
  •  Deputy Directorate Manager, Susie Blyth
  • Clinical Director, Dr Ben Hall
  • Head of Medical Physics, Peter Bartholomew 
  • Clinical Instrumentation Lead Physicist, Caroline Rudland
  • Nuclear Medicine Clinical Lead, Mark Gannon
  • Nuclear Medicine Physics Lead, Nicholas Vennart
  • Nuclear Medicine Chief Technologist, Glenn Guthrie

Contact us

Medical Physics: 0191 5699035

Finding Us

The Medical Physics departments are located at South Tyneside District Hospital, Sunderland Royal Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead.

Our services

  • Our services include:
  • Bone Densitometry
  • Clinical Instrumentation
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Physiological Measurements
  • Radiation Safety 
  • Vascular Ultrasound

Nuclear Medicine

With four general purpose dual detector gamma cameras and a dedicated cardiac gamma camera the Trust  provides Nuclear Medicine procedures for over 8500 patients at South Tyneside District Hospital, Sunderland Royal Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead. 

Bone Density

The Trust has two bone density scanners which provide over 3500 bone density scans at South Tyneside District Hospital and Sunderland Royal Hospital.

Physiological Measurement

The service provides intraoperative nerve monitoring for some adult patients undergoing spine surgery or complex hip replacements.

Clinical Instrumentation

This section assists clinicians by developing systems that either record quantities that cannot be measured with a commercial device, or by providing information in a more useful manner than can be provided by an existing device. The section also provides devices to assist patients in their daily lives. Some of the systems we have developed include:

  • The Sunderland Air Pressure Monitor
  • The Sunderland Talk4U
  • The Six-minute Walk Test
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