I hope you have all had a good Christmas break and are settling into the new year. The NHS is under the biggest pressure since its foundation and I am sure you will all be feeling it. Delivering healthcare in the UK has never been harder. Thank you for all that you are doing to support the care of our patients.

NHS England has initiated a PET-CT Specification working group which I am representing the BNMS on and progress has been made on the future parameters of the next round of PET-CT commissioning. This is likely to be national commissioning which over time will transfer to local integrated care boards. The work the BNMS has been doing on PET-CT standards, led by Gary Cook, is very useful and is being considered by NHS England in the process.

Molecular radiotherapy (MRT) continues to have a high profile with the expectation that NICE will approve Lu177 PSMA. There are a multitude of groups working on increasing access to MRT and also considering research angles. The BNMS has representation on all these groups with Sabina Dizdarevic and Glenn Flux centre stage in this.

The abstract submission is now open for the spring BNMS meeting in Harrogate. The programme looks great and Harrogate is an excellent venue where I have attended memorable BNMS meetings. I would urge you to submit your abstracts now and register for the meeting. Our recent BNMS meetings have been brilliant and I would not want anyone to miss out on the learning, networking and social opportunities our meetings afford!

Prof Richard Graham

BNMS President