Introduction
To maintain best practice, it is essential to keep accurate records and continuously audit what we do to ensure that we are working to professional standards. One of the areas of audit is departmental radiation dose and screening time. This allows the department to keep up-to-date dose reference levels for procedures that can then be compared to the National Diagnostic Reference Levels1 in accordance with the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations2.
These values are used by modality section heads when setting the dose levels, as required by the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2017 (IRMER, 2017). By making this comparison any dramatic variation above the national average could be a trigger, suggestive of a need to implement change and modify practice to reduce both departmental dose and screening time. These departmental dose averages have been used to form Local Diagnostic Reference...
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