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Welcome to the CT Practice page
This is where you will find useful links to groups, resources and publications to help you deliver of a safe, evidenced based CT service.
CT Special Interest Groups:
- Head Reporting - National CT Head Reporting Group contact: Tamsin Arnold
- Positron Emission Tomography – Computed Tomography (PET CT) Special Interest Group contact Helen Mason, Senior Radiographer in PET-CT at Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge
- CT Scottish Special Interest Group (CTSSIG) contact: to be updated
- CT Leads SIG contact Andrew Stephens
Practice
Assistant Practitioners
If you are an assistant practitioner working as part of a CT team we would love to hear from you. Tell us what you do and what impact it has on your service.
Find out more about the scope of practice of an assistant practitioner here
Radiographers
Radiographers may work in CT on a rotational basis or as an experienced specialist or advanced practitioner.
If you have developed an innovative service within your CT department or if you are involved in CT related research and would like to share your work contact us at [email protected]
Advanced Practitioners, Consultant Practitioners and Reporting Radiographers
Non-medical advanced practitioners are increasingly expected to be educated to Masters Level and Consultant Practitioners to Doctorate Level. The College of Radiographers supports and encourages accreditation at both levels of practice.
Find out about accreditation:
- Assistant Practitioner Accreditation
- Advanced Practitioner Accreditation
- NHS Improvement supports job planning for AHPs
Managers
Have you developed an innovative staffing model for your 24-hour CT service that you believe would benefit patients elsewhere?
What further support would you like to see available via our web pages?
- Contact us at [email protected]
Education and Governance
CT National Occupational Standards
- Skills for Health, national occupational standards
- Produce CT scanning images for diagnostic purposes
- Produce Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) images for diagnostic purposes
- Produce Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) and Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT/CT) images for diagnostic purposes
Legal framework for managing medicines in CT
Contrast agents, like all Prescription Only Medicines (POM’s), must be prescribed prior to administration.
These links and documents will help in understanding the legal framework:
- Prescribing
- Certificate of iv administration
- Patient Group Directions pgds
- Central Venous Catheter Guidance
Governance:
Guidance
Central Venous Catheter Guidance
NICE Guideline CG 176: Head injury: assessment and early management