Last week we had face to face Council and Professional Standards Committee where we got through a large amount of important work. While virtual meeting are OK face to face ones are better. More can be achieved in person. Relationships are key to making things happen and these are harder to make and reinforce in the virtual world. This was the last council meeting that I will chair (Jilly Croasdale will be President by the next council meeting) and was the last council meeting for Glenn Flux and Chris Mayes. I would like to thank Glenn and Chris for their hard work and excellent service to the BNMS and British Nuclear Medicine.

I represented us at the Royal College of Physicians Joint Specialist Committee last week where much was discussed about the nuclear medicine community’s response to NICE not approving Lu-177 PSMA and the response we would make. These responses are now in and I hope NICE will reconsider its position. Thank you to everyone who responded individually or contributed to corporate responses.

The council election is now live so please vote. The spring meeting in Harrogate is filling up so get your registrations in now so you can attend the annual BNMS dinner and after party which will sell out. EANM annual congress is September 9-13 in Vienna. I have seen the program and it looks excellent, so I recommend attending this as well as our Harrogate meeting. Registration and abstract submission are open now. I had a meeting least week with the President and Secretary of EANM about how we can mutually support each other. EANM is very grateful for the support given from the UK and don’t hold BREXIT against us! They plan to improve their guidelines further and increase the evidential rigor and involve partner clinical societies in each guideline going forward which should produce even better guidance.

The finalists for most innovative team of the year have been announced and they are Glasgow, Bath and Cardiff and the Vale. It was great to see so many great entries and you need to attend our Harrogate meeting to cast your vote for the winner. Look forward to seeing you all there.

Prof Richard Graham

BNMS President