Winter 2023
Multidisciplinary team meetings – standards for clinical radiologists
This document outlines the requirement for consultant radiologists and radiology departments to maximise the benefit of Multidisciplinary team meetings.
Standards
The Royal College of Radiologists exists to advance the science and practice of clinical radiology.
LEARN MOREThrough its Faculty of Clinical Radiology Professional Support and Standards Board it undertakes to produce standards or documents to provide guidance to individuals involved in the delivery of radiological services with the aim of defining good practice, advancing practice, and improving services for the benefit of patients.
The standards documents cover a wide range of topics. All have undergone an extensive consultation process to ensure broad consensus, underpinned by published evidence, where applicable. Each is subject to review four years after publication or earlier, as appropriate. The standards are not regulations governing practice but attempt to define the aspects of radiological services and care which promote the provision of high-quality service to patients.
Summer 2023Standards for the education, training and preceptorship of reporting practitioners in adult chest X-ray
The current document defines the education and training required for all members of the multi-professional team who report CXRs within a clinical imaging service.
Spring 2022Standards for the education and training of reporting practitioners in musculoskeletal plain radiographs
This document will support effective team working in the delivery of clinical imaging services by ensuring that all members of the multi-professional team reporting MSK plain radiographs will be trained to a standard level of overall competence in this aspect of their practice.
Winter 2021Standards of practice for computed tomography colonography (CTC)
This document sets out the standards which ensure delivery of the highest quality of examination and sensitivity for disease detection.
- Winter 2020
Standards for radiology events and learning meetings
This document emphasises the educational role of Radiology Events and Learning Meetings (REALMs) where radiological discrepancies are anonymously reviewed alongside examples of excellence.
Spring 2018Standards for interpretation and reporting of imaging investigations, Second edition
This document replaces the 2006 first edition and provides an update to the standards that should be attained by any doctor or healthcare professional providing a report on an imaging investigation.
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