Good practice guidance for enabling equitable access to clinical imaging referrals for registered healthcare professionals working in advancing practice roles
Date: 2025
Date of next review: November 2028 (or earlier if there are changes to the relevant legislation)
The Good practice guidance for enabling equitable access to clinical imaging referrals for registered healthcare professionals working in advancing practice roles was co-developed by the Royal College of Radiologists, NHS England, Society and College of Radiographers and Royal College of Nursing. This good practice guidance and accompanying infographic outlines principles for ensuring more consistent and equitable access to clinical imaging requests for registered healthcare professionals working in multi-professional enhanced, advanced, or consultant practice roles.
The guidance is supported by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and the Centre for Advancing Practice and builds on the guidance contained in the Royal College of Nursing’s (2021) Clinical imaging requests from non-medically qualified professionals (3rd edition).
