Monica Martins, Neil Hartman & Ralph Toop

At the recent MediWales Awards Ceremony (Cardiff, 4 December 2025), Swansea Bay Nuclear Medicine was "highly commended" for their NHS/industry partnership to provide an efficient south west Wales mobile PET/CT service in Swansea together with InHealth, which includes shared learning opportunities for local NHS staff. 

Proposed by Prof Neil Hartman, Singleton Hospital
8.12.2025

Prof John Buscombe, past BNMS President, has now retired from clinical work and from his role as module lead for the MRT/Theragnostics module at the MSc/PGDip/PgCert programme. Brighton and Sussex Medical School marked his retirement last week.

We wish him a long and happy retirement, knowing he will remain active in our community.  Prof Buscombe will feature in the very first  Past Presidents’ webinars on 13 January 2026, 6 pm - a wonderful way to honour his enduring contribution to nuclear medicine.

Dedication by Prof Sabina Dizdarevic, BNMS President

27.11.2025

Sally Barrington Retirement

Sally Barrington has recently almost fully retired, just spending some time seeing through to completion, some of the trials she has been involved in.

She will be a loss to her department and colleagues locally but will also be missed by a multitude of national and international colleagues, many of whom sent their good wishes for her retirement party.

As well as her substantial academic achievements and practice-changing contributions to the use of [¹⁸F]FDG PET in lymphoma, culminating in a prestigious NIHR professorship, she will also be missed for her vast experience and clinical expertise in other aspects of nuclear medicine and PET and as a trusted senior colleague.

Dedication by Prof Gary Cook, King's College London
25.06.2025

Sarah Allen has been a central pillar of the Guy’s and St Thomas Nuclear Medicine Department as a physicist, and in recent years, head of department. She is now almost fully retiring, reverting back to being a physicist on a part-time basis before she fully retires.

She has made significant contributions to the development of UK nuclear medicine through her roles locally and nationally through the BNMS. Her recent retirement party was attended by several other retired nuclear medicine legends as well as current colleagues and was an opportunity to celebrate her successful career and give thanks to an outstanding colleague.

Dedication by Prof Gary Cook, King's College London
25.06.2025

Paul Marsden Retirement

Paul Marsden, Professor of PET Physics at KCL, has played a major part in the King’s College London and Guy’s & ST Thomas’ PET Centre since its inception more than 30 years ago. His research interests have been wide and cover PET methodology and applications. As well as leading a successful clinical and research physics group and supervising many PhD students over the years, he has been instrumental in the development of many aspects of PET, but especially PET/MRI. He has also been co-lead of the UK PET core lab for several years.

We wish him all the best in his retirement in the knowledge that he will continue some academic endeavours before full retirement.

Dedication by Prof Gary Cook, King's College London
25.06.2025

Professor Alan Perkins, Past President BNMS, awarded MBE

On behalf of Officers, Council and friends and colleagues at the BNMS we would like to congratulate Professor Alan Perkins who has been awarded an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours in recognition of his outstanding services to patient care and clinical science.

Professor Alan Perkins is a leader in the field of Medical Physics, particularly in the area of Nuclear Medicine and related drug formulation and drug targeting. He has devoted most of his working life, and a considerable commitment of his own personal time, to improving patient care through original research and the inspiration and professional leadership of fellow scientists, locally, nationally and internationally.

Having served as BNMS Honorary Secretary, Alan then went on to become the first non-medically qualified person to have been President of the British Nuclear Medicine Society.

His excellence has been recognised by several prizes and awards from professional bodies, most notably the 2013 British Nuclear Medicine Society, Norman Veall Medal for outstanding scientific contribution to Nuclear Medicine.

Alan Perkins is emeritus professor of Medical Physics in Radiological Sciences at the University of Nottingham School of Medicine, an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists.

23.06.2025

We are asking members to highlight to the Honorary Secretary any colleagues who are retiring or deserve a shoutout for achievements in nuclear medicine.

These will be recognised in the monthly Newsletter, the BNMS website and on social media.

Please complete the form in the link here