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The Society and College of Radiographers is the AUTHOR of All Policy and Guidance documents.
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Information Management & Technology: Implications for the Radiography Workforce
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Summary
SCoR is pleased to publish this information and guidance document. It is written at a time when the healthcare environment is rapidly changing and acknowledges that developments in the field of information management and technology
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Equal Opportunities: disAbility Network Enabling Guide
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Grievance Procedure Guidelines
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Summary
This document provides information and support to managers and leaders with respect to professional leadership. The main body of the document provides information on the competence for leaders at all senior levels of practice and the appendices to the document provide separate competence outcomes for Service Managers, Consultant Practitioners and Advanced Practitioners
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Guidance on Approval & Accreditation of Practice Placements at all Levels of Pre-Registration Education
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This document details policy for the accreditation by the Society and College of Radiographers of a clinical department as an approved practice placement provider for pre-registration learners. It provides guidance on the approval process leading to recognition of a clinical department as an approved clinical placement in association with approved education programme(s) and education centre(s) or as an approved specialist placement provider, for example a dedicated paediatric department.
Approval will encompass the collaborative arrangements between education and placement providers and the total numbers of pre-registration learners which the site can accommodate.
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Implementing Radiography Career Progression: Guidance for Managers
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The Society and College of Radiographers (SCoR) has developed this further implementation guidance to its Education and Professional Development (EPD) strategy in order to assist managers of clinical imaging and radiotherapy & oncology services. In the development of this document, managers within the profession have used their experience and their imagination to create an advice document which will support their colleagues in implementing the career progression framework.
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Guidance on Implementation of Policy and Principles: The Approval & Accreditation of Education Programmes & Professional Practice in Radiography
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The Society and College of Radiographers launched its Approval and Accreditation: Policy and Principles document in June 2004. This document follows on from that original document and provides information on the benefits of implementing the Society and College’s Approval and Accreditation Framework. It also provides broad guidance on the implementation of the framework and acts as a source of reference for education providers, education commissioners, purchasers and sponsors, and _ those acting for the Society and College of Radiographers on approval and accreditation functions.
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Policy & Principles: The Approval & Accreditation of Education Programmes & Professional Practice in Radiography
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The Society and College of Radiographers accredits the professional level
workforce in radiography through validation and approval of both pre- and post- registration education programmes and through accreditation of the individual as they enter membership of the professional body. It now intends to broaden and streamline this work to provide a comprehensive framework within which education, professional development and learning departments may gain professional
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The causes of Musculoskeletal Injury amongst Sonographers in the UK
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This document was published in 2002. It contains research findings and gives recommendations that have often been cited by others in later publications. To ensure that it remains available for today’s researchers to access it is maintained on the ‘active’ part of the document library. Clearly much has changed with respect to healthcare provision since 2002 but the research within and the recommendations arising from it remain relevant today