Clinical Imaging Requests from Non-Medically Qualified Professionals (3rd Edition)

This guidance document provides advice and good practice recommendations for employers and health care professionals involved in clinical imaging processes, regarding requests for all modalities of imaging procedures (ionising and non-ionising) from non-medically qualified health care professionals. Further IR(ME) R guidance is available from the Department of Health (2017) specifically relating to referrers in section ten. The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (IR(ME)R) provide for the health protection of individuals undergoing medical exposures involving ionising radiation, including requirements regarding requests for X-ray examinations.

This document was last revised on: 21/09/2021. More details about the publication, copyright details, and the option to order a hard copy can be found on the Royal College of Nursing website.