The BNMS virtual meeting went as well as a virtual meeting can. There were so many excellent sessions to attend with difficult choices to be made between the 2 streams. We have had excellent feedback about the meeting and I would like to thank Sabina Dizdarevic, Vineet Prakash and Brent Drake for leading the team that delivered it. A huge amount of work but definitely worth it! Sabina is now steeping down from the scientific and education committee which she has served so well for many years.
 
I cannot wait until the Glasgow meeting next spring. While virtual meetings are OK they are just not the same and we are all missing face to face interaction. I am looking forward to seeing you all in person in Glasgow. The venue is excellent, and Glasgow has easy communication links. I would like to thank our industry partners for their continued support of the virtual meetings which have not been as productive for them, and I am sure we are all looking forward to networking with them in person in Glasgow so that we can take nuclear medicine forward together.
The work on pushing the argument for the professional registration of technologists continues as does the campaign to improve access to nuclear medicine therapy. We hope to be successful in both regards! The decision whether to commission Luteitium-177 PSMA is the next big decision the NHS will make in that is in our sphere of practice. Nice plans to issue its verdict in September 2022. We as a community need to get behind this and provide any data and insights, we can that informs this decision.
 
Demand in diagnostic nuclear medicine, particularly in the cancer arena, continues to outstrip capacity. I know many services are trying to generate extra capacity and I tank you all for this important work that you are doing which supports acute care and elective recovery.
 
Finally, nominations are open for President elect and I would encourage anyone who is eligible to stand to consider it as it is a great privilege to lead the BNMS and a position from which you can ultimately improve patient care nationally and internationally.

Prof Richard Graham

BNMS President