Since October 2022, NHS England have collected national data from NHS providers for their physiological science services.  The first cycle of collections has now been completed, and they will be repeating this national stocktake for ophthalmic diagnostics and imaging services during September 2025.  

The aim of the physiological science data collections (aligned to the national diagnostic strategy) is to enable an improved understanding of these services and develop benchmarking data particularly in relation to activity, productivity, waiting times, workforce and estates.   The data collected will be compared against baseline data and used to underpin local and national transformation programmes for physiological sciences through our physiological science networks. 

The ophthalmic diagnostics and imaging national collection will be open during Monday 15^th September – Friday 10^th October 2025.  

Each survey has been developed with input from a range of stakeholders including subject matter experts, data experts and specialists. 

If you haven’t already, please join the FutureNHS Collaboration Platform – https://future.nhs.uk/PhysiologicalMeasurements/groupHome for information, webinar recordings and updates about the programme

If you have any queries regarding the physiological science data collections, please contact england.psprogramme@nhs.net  / karen.richardson51@nhs.net

Manchester Royal Eye Hospital are currently advertising for a clinical scientist to lead their Ophthalmic Electrodiagnostic service, following the retirement of the current head.   For full details, head to www.jobs.nhs.uk or click on https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9349-25-1864

The application deadline is 29^th June

The Academy for Healthcare Science, in partnership with the British Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (BriSCEV), will be pausing the Ophthalmic and Vision Science equivalence process from 22nd May, for a period of 8 weeks.

This is to facilitate some work between AHCS, BriSCEV and to involve the National School of Healthcare Science (NSHCS) where appropriate.

We will keep colleagues informed as to when they can submit documents again.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have two fixed-term opportunities for an enthusiastic scientist to contribute to patient care and project delivery in Northern Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering. One role will support our visual Electrodiagnostic service with diagnostic patient testing and clinical reporting.  Both successful post holders will contribute to projects evaluating the evidence and performance of medical devices and technologies, in particular whether a stereoscopic camera can reliably quantify anatomical deformities.

Closing 26/05/2025  Interview date 06/06/2025  Job ref317-2025-16-022

Further information can be found here, or contact clare.warriner@nhs.net

UK-EGG Annual Meeting 2025 Oxford

Early bird registration deadline: 16th May 2025 at 23:59 BST. Register Now to benefit from discounted pricing! UK-EGG members save an additional £25 on the cost of registration.

The Academy for Healthcare Science have announced the opening of the Stage 1 Nominations process for the Honorary Fellowships 2025 and will remain open until 12^th of June 2025.

Outstanding contribution of individuals is recognised in the following areas:

a)      Formation and Development of AHCS

b)     Advancement of Healthcare Science in the UK

c)      Promotion and Public Awareness

d)     Service to AHCS.

You can find all information regarding guidance and nominations on the Honorary Fellowships webpage via the below links.

AHCS Honorary Fellows - The Academy For Healthcare Science

On UK-EGG committee behalf

UK-EGG Annual meeting 2025 Oxford - Call for abstracts and clinical genetic cases 

To submit abstracts for a poster and/or a short talk in the Early Career Researcher or clinical genetic cases sessions, please download the form below and send your abstract to ukeyegenetics@gmail.com. All abstracts for oral and poster presentations will be subject to peer review before acceptance. Submissions will close on 2nd May 2025 and successful submissions will be notified by 10th May 2025. Prizes will be awarded at the end of the conference for the best oral and poster presentations.

Early bird registration deadline: 16th May 2025 at 23:59 BST. 

This year, the meeting will be chaired by Professor Susan Downes and by Miss Samantha De Silva and hosted at St Anne’s College, in Oxford!

The day will include thought provoking sessions on clinical and molecular eye genetics, genetic case discussions, short talks and posters by early careers researchers, and talks by charities. Confirmed speakers at present include Dr Kanmin Xue, Professor Sobha Sivaprasad, Professor Robert MacLaren, Professor Susan Downes, Dr Jasmina Kapetanovic, Professor Omar Mahroo, Dr Panos Sergouniotis, Professor Dominik Fischer  as well as Miss Samantha de Silva.

Register now to benefit from discounted pricing! UK-EGG members save an additional £25 on the cost of registration – don’t delay, sign up today and save!

We look forward to welcoming you to Oxford this summer!

More details in our website: https://ukegg.com/annual-meeting-oxford-2025/ 

Thursday 1st May – Friday 2nd May NHS Elect are hosting a special charity webathon, offering 24 hours of free learning for NHS staff as a thank you for everything you do.

It is free to all and you do not have to be a member of NHS Elect to access.

There’s plenty of sessions to choose from, on popular topics like leadership, wellbeing, and workplace happiness. Take part and register for as many sessions as you like from the agenda attached.

NHS Elect 24-hour charity webathon

UK-EGG Annual Conference Oxford 2025.  Monday, 16th June, 2025 - In Person

Call for abstracts and clinical genetic cases:

To submit abstracts for a poster and/or a short talk in the Early Career Researcher or clinical genetic cases sessions, please download the form and send your abstract to ukeyegenetics@gmail.com. All abstracts for oral and poster presentations will be subject to peer review before acceptance. Submissions will close on 2nd May 2025 and successful submissions will be notified by 10th May 2025. Prizes will be awarded at the end of the conference for the best oral and poster presentations.

NHS England have collected national data from NHS providers for their physiological science services, with the output being shared in an interactive power BI dashboard. Following feedback received, for the second cycle of collections they have developed a new and improved singular dashboard which allows users to view all disciplines in one place. 

So far, we have collected round 2 data for cardiac science, respiratory and sleep, vascular sciences and neurophysiology and we are now able to share the first release of the dashboard.  This release includes data on referrals, activity, waiting lists and workforce. Please note a second release is planned for April/May 2025 which will include additional tabs covering the other sections in the collections.

The newly published dashboard can be accessed from here – National Physiological Science Data Collection Dashboard

If you have issues with accessing the dashboard, or if any error messages appear on screen, please firstly contact your local IT administrator to ensure that the free PowerBI licence is enabled.

A webinar session on Tuesday 18^th March between 2:00-3:00pm will offer further details about the functionality and how to navigate around the dashboards.   

If you haven’t received an invite to attend this session, but would like to join, please complete this form before Friday 14^th March – Webinar registration form. 

Please note, invite numbers are limited but this event will be recorded and uploaded to the Physiological Science Programme - FutureNHS Collaboration Platform