Society and College of Radiographers | |
Founded | 1920 |
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Headquarters | London, England |
Location | |
Members | 33,250 (2022)[1] |
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Affiliations | EFRS,[2] ISRRT,[3] NICE[4] TUC,[5] PARN, STUC,[6] WRETF[7] |
Website | www.sor.org |
The Society of Radiographers (SoR) is a professional body and trade union that represents more than 90 percent of the diagnostic and therapeutic radiographers in the United Kingdom.[8] The College of Radiographers (CoR) is a charitable subsidiary of the Society, they are collectively known as the Society and College of Radiographers (SCoR).
It was founded in 1920 in an effort to provide standardised training and registration for Radiographers within the British Isles.[9] Until 1996, the SoR was also the professional body and trades union for radiographers in Ireland whereupon the Irish Institute of Radiography and Radiation Therapy was established.[9]