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and she agreed I could do it. Next, I phoned my friend Ken Holmes, Senior Lecturer at the<br />
University of Cumbria, to ask if he would work alongside me to co-lead the creation of the<br />
website and he agreed. I knew that Ken and I could not create all the content for the website<br />
alone, mainly because of the timeframe the website was needed within. We needed<br />
competent and credible authors to write copyright free new content and to create new<br />
instructional videos and other materials for the website and we needed an accessible<br />
eLearning platform to house the content within.<br />
Given my conversation with Dimitris in September 20<strong>19</strong>, I engaged him in a Face<strong>book</strong><br />
message exchange where I outlined my proposal and what I wanted from <strong>ISRRT</strong>. Dimitris<br />
obliged immediately. He also consulted Donna Newman (the then President of <strong>ISRRT</strong>); in the<br />
message exchange Dimitris indicated Donna to be enthusiastic about my idea. Not only did<br />
<strong>ISRRT</strong> provide the required eLearning platform free of charge, they also offered a web<br />
programmer free of charge to put content into the site and to give the site the functionality<br />
it required.<br />
My thoughts on getting competent and credible authors would come partly from my<br />
international professional network, partly from <strong>ISRRT</strong> and partly from the EFRS.<br />
Consequently, I engaged Dr Jonathan McNulty, the then current President of EFRS, in an email<br />
conversation about my idea and he readily agreed to help and would source a range of<br />
authors as needed. As a matter of courtesy, and at Dianne’s suggestion and again through<br />
email, I let my own professional body (Society and College of Radiographers) know what was<br />
being planned. I therefore emailed Charlotte Beardmore (Director of Professional Policy at<br />
the Society and College of Radiographers), ‘for information’. Quite quickly I realized doing this<br />
was extremely valuable, as Charlotte became an invaluable advocate and confidante for me<br />
and, she allocated eLearning for health (eLfH) resource to the website project, without any<br />
charge. In due course we worked with eLfH to produce learning sessions which would link<br />
directly to the <strong>ISRRT</strong> website for <strong>COVID</strong>-<strong>19</strong> chest x-ray imaging and, importantly, complement<br />
the learning materials within the <strong>ISRRT</strong> website.<br />
During the evening of 4 th April, I started to sketch out possible contents of the website ready<br />
to talk with Ken the following day in a bid to get us into the fast-lane of developing the site.<br />
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