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Winter 2025

Good practice guidance for enabling equitable access to clinical imaging referrals for registered healthcare professionals working in advancing practice roles

When determining access to clinical imaging requesting, inconsistencies remain across services. The guidance has been co-developed by the Royal College of Radiologists, the Society and College of Radiographers, the Royal College of Nursing, and NHS England. It is supported by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and the Centre for Advancing Practice.

Spring 2022

Implementing Ordercomms (electronic requesting) in radiology

In order to maintain the core benefits of paperless requesting, build additional value for staff and patients, and avoid new risks, it is vital that radiologists and other radiology staff work closely with clinical and IT colleagues in the procurement, implementation and ongoing deployment of these systems and their interfaces with other hospital systems.

Spring 2022

Radiology reporting networks – Understanding the technical options

This document specifies what imaging departments could link to a radiology (image and report sharing) network. It has been written by NHS radiologists with the help of industry experts; the detail is beyond what most radiologists will require but hopefully it will be of use to clinical PACS leads, PACS and IT teams when they begin to procure standards-based, vendor-neutral, seamlessly interoperable network radiology platforms (NRPs).

Spring 2021

Vetting (triaging) and cancellation of inappropriate radiology requests

Radiologist review of imaging requests prevents unnecessary radiation, inappropriate and duplicate examinations and makes the overall delivery of radiological services both safer and more efficient.

Spring 2021

Integrating artificial intelligence with the radiology reporting workflows (RIS and PACS)

This guidance sets out the standards that a department should meet when integrating AI into already established systems, producing a safe seamless system with the patients at the centre.

Autumn 2020

Radiology business intelligence for service planning and workforce modelling

The guidance provides information about the importance of data transparency and examples of real time business intelligence.

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