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Autumn 2025

PACS procurement tips and tricks

Guidance on how to streamline the process of procuring or replacing a picture archiving and communication system (PACS).

Autumn 2025

Guidance on screening and symptomatic breast imaging, fifth edition

Guidance on screening and symptomatic breast imaging, fifth edition replaces the Guidance on screening and symptomatic breast imaging, fourth edition

Autumn 2025

Standards for interpretation and reporting of imaging investigations, third edition

Standards for the reporting and interpretation of imaging investigations provide a baseline that all radiology reports should achieve, so that the quality and consistency of imaging interpretation can be assured.

Summer 2025

Guidance following the Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of sex

We have joined forces with the Society of Radiographers (SoR) to issue joint guidance on the implications for service delivery, patient care, and workforce management in imaging and oncology services.

Spring 2025

Diagnosis of thoracic aortic dissection in the emergency department

This guideline seeks to provide a consensus opinion with regard to which patients should be considered for CT scanning (the diagnostic modality of choice) while accepting that this is still an area of considerable controversy and concern.

Spring 2025

Application of the Records management code of practice to radiology record retention protocols

The purpose of this document is to interpret the NHSX Records management code of practice for health and social care from a radiology digital record perspective, providing guidance to radiology staff, information technology (IT) departments and system vendors on the implications of the Code for radiology record retention and how these might be addressed using digital solutions.

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