Physicists, engineers and technologists play vital roles in delivering our healthcare. IPEM is the professional organisation that represents this workforce. We are a charity with around 4,000 members from healthcare, academia and industry.
Our members help to ensure that patients are correctly diagnosed and safely treated for illnesses such as cancer and stroke. They also maintain and manage medical equipment such as MRI and ultrasound scanners, X-ray machines, drug delivery systems and patient monitors.
Their research and innovation leads to new technologies and methods that improve on existing medical treatments. They provide new solutions that enable older people and patients with injuries or long-term conditions to complete everyday tasks.
IPEM's objectives are:
IPEM is the professional organisation for physicists, academics, clinical and biomedical engineers and technologists working in medicine and biology.
• IPEM is both a professional body and a charity.
• We aim to advance physics and engineering applied to medicine and biology for the public good.
• We have over 4,000 members including academics, apprentices, biomedical engineers, clinical engineers, medical physicists, students, technologists and trainees.
• We own three internationally recognised journals in medical physics and bioengineering.
• We fund innovative projects and research.
• We run a year round programme of scientific meetings and conferences.
• Our outreach activities promote physics and engineering careers in healthcare to young people.
• We aim to influence policy at Government level by bringing members’ expertise to debates, consultations and national working groups.
