Current policy and guidance document library

The radiological investigation of suspected physical abuse in children
'What do patients want?' guidance poster
'What you can expect from us’ patient guidance poster
A Charter for Protected Study Time in Scotland
A Framework for Professional Leadership in Clinical Imaging and Radiotherapy & Oncology Services
A guide to modern radiotherapy
A Guide to Understanding the Implications of the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations in Radiotherapy
A guide to understanding the implications of the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations in diagnostic and interventional radiology
A project to develop draft modules and a credit framework to support development of management skills in radiographers
A survey of social and commercial aspects linked to the two NHS fetal anomaly screening scans: an on-line survey
A UK Survey of Radiotherapy Skin Care by SCoR
Achieving World-Class Cancer Outcomes: The Vision for Therapeutic Radiography
An assessment of the impact of Virtual Environment for Radiotherapy Training in UK clinical radiotherapy centres
An evaluation of the impact of implementation of consultant practitioners in clinical imaging
Analysis of breast screening appointment lengths survey
Analysis of student and recently qualified radiographers survey 2014
Analysis of student clinical placement experience survey
Analysis of students and recent graduates survey 2012
Approval and Accreditation Board; Annual Report 2006-2007
Approval and Accreditation Board; Annual Report 2007-2008
Approval and Accreditation Board; Annual Report 2008-2009
Approval and Accreditation Board; Annual Report 2009-2010
Approval and Accreditation Board; Annual Report 2010-2011
Approval and Accreditation Board; Annual Report 2012-2013
Approval and Accreditation Board; Annual Report 2013-2014
Approval and Accreditation Board; Annual Report 2014-2015
Approval and Accreditation Board; Annual Report 2015-2016
Approval and Accreditation Board; Annual Report 2016-17
Around the clock: A negotiators guide to the working time regulations; shift work and flexible working
Assistant Practitioners and the supply, administration and prescribing of medicines
Assistant Practitioners and Ultrasound Scans for Fetal Growth Monitoring and Assessment: Position Statement
Bariatric Patients: Guidance and Advice for the Radiography Workforce
Body Mapping: A resource for SoR Health and Safety Representatives
Bullying and Harassment: Achieving dignity at work for all our members
Caring for People with Dementia: a clinical practice guideline for the radiography workforce (imaging and radiotherapy)
Census of the Radiotherapy Radiographic Workforce in the UK 2013
Census of the Radiotherapy Radiographic Workforce in the UK, 2014
Census of the Radiotherapy Radiographic Workforce in the UK, 2015
Census of the Radiotherapy Radiographic Workforce in the UK, 2016
Clinical Imaging Requests from Non-Medically Qualified Professionals
Clinical Oncology
Code of Professional Conduct
Communicating Radiation Benefit and Risk Information to Individuals Under the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (IR(ME)R)
Computed Tomographic Colonography: Guidance on Standards
Computerised Tomography (CT) scanners in Nuclear Medicine facilities; use by nuclear medicine practitioners from both radiographic and technologist backgrounds.
Consent to Imaging and Radiotherapy Treatment Examinations
Consultant Radiographer - Guidance for the Support of New and Established Roles
Consultant Radiographers: Succession Planning
Continuing Professional Development: Professional and Regulatory Requirements
Course of Study for the Certification of Competence in Administering Intravenous Injections
CT Equipment, Operations, Capacity and Planning in the NHS
Dealing with bullying and harassment - A guide for student radiographers
Developing and Growing the Sonographer workforce: Education and Training needs
Diagnostic Radiography UK Workforce Report 2014
Diagnostic Radiography UK Workforce Report 2016
Diagnostic Radiography UK Workforce Report 2017
Diagnostic Radiography Workforce UK Census 2018
Diagnostic Radiography: A Survey of the Scope of Radiographic Practice 2015
Direct Entry Undergraduate Ultrasound Programmes (with competency to practise): a briefing from the Society and College of Radiographers
Education and Career Framework for the Radiography Workforce
Education and Professional Development Strategy: New Directions
Education Strategy for Scotland
Effect of Agenda for Change on Career Progression of the Radiographic Workforce 2009
Effect of Agenda for Change on the Career Progression of the Radiographic Workforce 2009 - Executive Summary
End of Life Care Strategy
Equal Opportunities: disAbility Network Enabling Guide
Good practice guide for paediatric radiotherapy - Second Edition
Grievance Procedure Guidelines
Guidance for Radiographers providing Forensic Radiography Services
Guidance for Student Radiographers on the Grievance Process
Guidance on Approval & Accreditation of Practice Placements at all Levels of Pre-Registration Education
Guidance on Implementation of Policy and Principles: The Approval & Accreditation of Education Programmes & Professional Practice in Radiography
Guidance on Improving Access to Radiotherapy – Increasing working hours
Guidance on long term consequences of treatment for gynaecological cancer. Part 1: Pelvic radiotherapy
Guidance on mental capacity decisions in diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy
Guidance on Out of Hours Working and your Personal Scope of Practice
Guidance on the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007
Guidance on the Management and Governance of Additional Radiotherapy Capacity
Guidelines for professional ultrasound practice
Have you "Paused & Checked"? IR(ME)R Operator checklist for Administration of Radioisotopes for Molecular Imaging Procedures
Have you 'Paused & Checked'? IR(ME)R Operator checklist for Molecular Imaging Procedures: Image acquisition
Have you paused and checked? IR(ME)R
Have you paused and checked? IR(ME)R Referrers
Have you paused and checked? MRI
Have you paused and checked? Radiotherapy
Have you paused and checked? Ultrasound
Health & Safety and Pregnancy in Clinical Imaging and Radiotherapy Departments: A Guide for pregnant women, breast feeding women
Health and Care Professions (H&CP) Practice Education Guidance
Health Care Associated Infections (HCAIs) Practical Guidance and Advice
Health Promotion: guidance and advice for the radiography workforce
Image Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT) Clinical Support Programme in England 2012 -2013
Image Guided Radiotherapy – Guidance for implementation and use
Imaging Children; immobilisation, distraction techniques and use of sedation
Implementing In Vivo dosimetry
Implementing Radiography Career Progression: Guidance for Managers
Implementing the career framework in radiotherapy – policy into practice
Improving retention of the radiotherapy workforce - the role of practice placements in student attrition from pre-registration programmes in England: executive summary and recommendations
Improving retention of the radiotherapy workforce - the role of practice placements in student attrition from pre-registration programmes in England: Full report
Industry Standards for the Prevention of Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Sonography
Information Management & Technology: Implications for the Radiography Workforce
Information Management and Technology (IM&T): A report compiled by Cardiff University for the Society and College of Radiographers
Information Management and Technology: further advice and guidance on curriculum
Intimate Examinations and Chaperone Policy
Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2017; briefing for radiographers who undertake commenting or reporting
Join the Patient Advisory Group (PAG) poster
Learning and Development Framework for Hybrid Nuclear Medicine/ Computed Tomography Practice (SPECT-CT/ PET-CT)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Equipment, Operations and Planning in the NHS
Management of cancer patients receiving radiotherapy with a cardiac implanted electronic device: A clinical guideline
Mentoring: Guidance and advice
Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging (mpMRI): Prostate Imaging Guidance Document 1.5 Tesla
Musculoskeletal Disorders in Mammography: A Guide to Tackling the Issues in the Workplace
Musculoskeletal Disorders in Therapeutic Radiographers
National Best Practice Guidelines for the CT Colonography Service
NHS obstetric ultrasound examinations. Guidance on sale of images, fetal sexing, commercial considerations and requests to record. Third edition.
Obtaining consent: a clinical guideline for the diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy workforce
On Target - Ensuring Geometric Accuracy
Patient Advocacy
Patient Identification, Confidentiality and Consent: Further Guidance
Patient Public and Practitioner Partnerships within Imaging and Radiotherapy: Guiding Principles
Pay and Banding of Trainees: Advice on Implementation of Annex U for the Radiography Workforce
Policy & Principles: The Approval & Accreditation of Education Programmes & Professional Practice in Radiography
Practical Tips for Delivering Difficult News in Obstetric Ultrasound
Practice Educator Accreditation Scheme: The Approval & Accreditation of Educational Programmes & Professional Practice
Practice Guidance for Radiographer Independent and/or Supplementary Prescribers
Practice Standards for the Imaging of Children and Young People
Pregnancy and Work in Diagnostic Imaging Departments
Preliminary Clinical Evaluation and Clinical Reporting by Radiographers: Policy and Practice Guidance
Prevention of Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Sonography
Principles for continuing professional development and lifelong learning in health and social care
Principles of Safe Staffing for Radiography Leaders
Professional Supervision – Advice and Guidance Document
Protected Study Time - Guidance for Radiographers, Managers and Union Representatives
Protection of Pregnant Patients during Diagnostic Medical Exposures to Ionising radiation: Advice from the Health Protection Agency, The Royal College of Radiologists and the College of Radiographers
Protection of Pregnant Patients: Sample decision flow chart (to be read in conjunction with "Protection of Pregnant Patients during Diagnostic Medical Exposures to Ionising Radiation)
Proton Beam Therapy - Guidance
Quality imaging services for primary care: a good practice guide
Quality Standards for Practice Placements
Radiographers and Naso-Gastric (NG) Intubation (Second edition)
Radiographers and the Use of Medicines: National Scoping Project 2010
Radiographers and Volunteering - SOR policy and guidance
Radiotherapy Board - Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) in the UK: Current access and predictions of future access rates
Radiotherapy Radiographic Workforce Census 2017
Radiotherapy Radiographic Workforce UK Census 2018
Raising concerns in the workplace: guidance for SoR members
Report on the Census of the Radiotherapy Workforce in the UK 2011
Report on the Census of the Radiotherapy Workforce in the UK 2012
Research Strategy 2016-2021
Resuscitation Training for the Radiography Workforce
Roles and Responsibilities in Clinical Education
Safety in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Safety representatives and safety committees: The Regulations, Codes of Practice and guidance relating to the Safety Representatives and Safety Committees Regulations, 1977. ;
Scope of Practice of Assistant Practitioners
Scope of Radiographic Practice 2008: A report compiled by the University of Hertfordshire in collaboration with the Institute for Employment Studies for the Society and College of Radiographers.
Scope of radiographic practice survey 2012
Self referral to Allied Health Professionals : A position statement in relation to diagnostic and therapeutic radiographers
Senior Service Manager Survey Analysis
Sickness absence policy survey analysis
Skin care advice for patients undergoing radical external beam megavoltage radiotherapy
SoMeRAD: Guidance for the radiography workforce on the professional use of Social Media
Sonographer Workforce Survey Analysis
Standards for the provision of an ultrasound service
Standards of Radiographic Practice for Post-Mortem Cross- Sectional Imaging (PMC-SI)
Stress in the workplace: guidance and advice for the radiography workforce
Stroke imaging services; guidance and advice
Student and recently qualified radiographers survey 2017
Student Radiographer Attendance Management Guidelines
Student radiographers & trainee assistant practitioners as “Operators” under IR(ME)R 2000/2006
Student radiographers and trainee assistant practitioners: verifying patient identification and seeking consent
Summary of Interventions for Acute Radiotherapy-Induced Skin Reactions in Cancer Patients: A Clinical Guideline recommended for use by The Society and; College of Radiographers
Survey into student bullying on clinical placement
Talking about the unspoken: Domestic Abuse
Team working in clinical imaging
The ACORRN/SCoR Research Radiographer Starter Pack For Therapeutic and Diagnostic Radiographers
The causes of Musculoskeletal Injury amongst Sonographers in the UK
The College of Radiographers Research Priorities for the Radiographic Profession
The Diagnostic Radiographer as the entitled IR(ME)R Practitioner
The impact of IR(ME)R 2017 IR(ME)R (NI) 2018 on pregnancy checking procedures
The joint response of the Society of Radiographers and the College of Radiographers to the Final Report of the Independent Inquiry into care provided by Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust
The Prostate/Urology Specialist Cancer Workforce: Provision of Specialist Therapeutic Radiographers in the Treatment and Care of Men with Prostate Cancer
The Radiographic Assistant Practitioner’s role in Quality Control of Radiological Equipment
The Radiography Workforce: Current Challenges and Changing Needs
The recording of images and clinical discussions by patients during diagnostic imaging, interventional procedures and radiotherapy treatments. Second edition.
The Role of the Community Liaison Expert Radiographer Practitioner: Guidance for Radiotherapy and Imaging Service Managers and Commissioners
The Role of the Radiographer in Computed Tomography Imaging
The Role of the Radiographer in DXA and Osteoporosis Services
The Scope of Practice 2013
The supply and administration of medicines and contrast agents: results of survey into current practice in imaging and radiotherapy departments
Towards Safer Radiotherapy
Trainee consultant and consultant radiographer survey 2018
Trans Equality; guidance for the radiography workforce (imaging and radiotherapy)
Ultrasound examination lengths survey analysis
Ultrasound examination times and appointments
Ultrasound Training, Employment, Registration and Professional Indemnity Insurance
Ultrasound Training, Employment, Registration and Professional Indemnity Insurance
Ultrasound Workforce UK Census 2019
Use of anatomical side markers
Values-based Practice in Diagnostic & Therapeutic Radiography: A Training Template
VDU Regulations (H&S (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations): A Guide to dealing with Health and Safety Issues arising from their use
VERT Final Project Report
VERT Final Project Report – Executive Summary
Work Related Musculo-Skeletal Disorders (Sonographers)
Work-related stress guidance for health and safety representatives

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