BSIRNR CPD Event Programme & Faculty Bio's

BSIR NR CPD Event Programme

09:00-09:30 Refreshments and Registration

09:30-09:40 Welcome and Introduction: Pete Sutton and Claire Elwood

09:40-09:55 Enhanced and Advanced Practice and the Importance of Education: Kayleigh Hizzett

09:55-10:10 Consultant Practice and Leadership: Helen Estall

10:10-10:25 Managing Difficult Conversations: Helen Watts

10:25-10:45 Professional Development using the KAWA Model: CLaire Elwood

10:45-11:15 Break and Networking

11:15-12:45 Industry-led Rotating Workshops
Terumo Interventional Systems
Argon Medical
BVM
Vygon
BD
Burlington
Society of Anaesthesia and Radiology

12:45-13:45 Lunch and Networking

13:45-15:45 Industry-led Rotating Workshops
Terumo Interventional Systems
Argon Medical
BVM
Vygon
BD
Burlington
Society of Anaesthesia and Radiology

15:45-16:15 Coffee and Closing Remarks

BSIR NR CPD Event Bio's

Helen Watts

Helen Watts is a Diagnostic Radiographer by background; she qualified in 2012, and after post-graduate study, specialised in the reporting of projection radiography from 2014 (MSK, CXR, AXR and paediatrics). Helen completed her Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Radiographic Reporting) MSc in 2021 and is recognised as achieving this level of practice by the Advancing Practice Faculty. 

Helen’s substantive post is at South Tees NHS Trust, as an Advanced Practitioner Radiographer. Helen is currently seconded part time as the Lead Radiographer for the North East and North Cumbria Imaging Network, providing leadership and expert knowledge to support strategic planning, delivery of strategy, and collaborative service transformation. She is passionate about empowering and developing the radiography and imaging workforce, to deliver high-quality and patient-centred services. In 2023-2024 Helen completed an 11-month Clinical Leadership Fellowship with the National Cancer and Diagnostics team, NHS England (Workforce, Training and Education). 

Helen established and is co-chair of the UK-wide and SoR registered Reporting Radiographer Special Interest Group, as well as now being a facilitator of the Advancing Practice in Radiography Special Interest Group (APRAD-SIG).

Helen Estall

Helen Estall is a SoR accredited consultant radiographer in MRI at the University Hospitals of Leicester. She completed a MSc in MRI reporting in 2014 and reports MRI brain and spine examinations. Helen is past chair of the SoR MRI Advisory Group (MRAG) and sits on the British Association of MR Radiographers (BAMRR) policy board. Helen is a technical assessor for UKAS and an honorary lecturer for the University of Leicester and De Montfort University, and visiting lecturer at Sheffield Hallam and Birmingham City universities. She has been an invited speaker at several national and international conferences and is currently studying for a PhD.

Kayleigh Hackett

Kay Hizzett is the Chair of the BSIR Nurses and Radiographers Specialist Interest Committee.

Kay is an Assistant Professor at the University of Bradford. Prior to commencing employment at the University in 2015 she worked at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary within interventional radiology, cardiology and MRI and became an Advanced Practitioner within vascular access. Preceding to this Kay worked at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

She successfully completed her Masters in Medical Imaging in 2021 with her dissertation focussing on career decision making of undergraduate radiographers.

Kay has a strong passion for interventional radiology education, an area that is often forgotten both at undergraduate and postgraduate level of both radiographers and nurses.

Her research interests include career decision making, advanced practice and vascular access.

Claire Elwood

I have been a Diagnostic radiographer for over 20 years. I qualified from the University of Hertfordshire and after a short time working in London; I have built my career with Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.  I completed the NHS England Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) e portfolio accreditation in October 2023 and work within Interventional Radiology (IR)  performing a number or examinations and procedures autonomously.

I enjoy working in a multidisciplinary environment and have always been drawn to theatre and fluoroscopy, so IR is a good combination! IR is a growing speciality within Radiology and the technological advances are creating exciting and innovative patient pathways that make a real difference. 

IR is often overlooked as a speciality within Radiology and I hope as a committee member to be able to support the committee in achieving their goals of promotion, education and networking at all levels.

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