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.

In this document the SCoR defines practice development within the context of radiography and sets out a strategy to facilitate practice development to the benefit of patients, clinical services and the profession.

This joint document gives advice and help on how to deliver safer radiotherapy treatment.

This document has been produced to provide definitive statements regarding SCoR policy in respect of the practice of Assistant Practitioners in Radiotherapy. Practice has developed since initial policy guidance was published in 2000 and this new guidance reflects the important role that Assistant Practitioners can play in the delivery of radiotherapy and oncology services.

The Society and College of Radiographers is aware that Radiotherapy and Oncology and Diagnostic Imaging Departments frequently receive requests for work experience from schools, 6th form colleges and from individual students and their parents. This guidance provides advice on how to respond to such requests.

This document contains information, advice and guidance on the general principles of good practice in seeking consent from patients prior to examinations and treatment undertaken by the radiography workforce in clinical imaging and radiotherapy departments. It has been informed by current available evidence.

Annex U of the Agenda for Change NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook addresses the pay and conditions of service for trainees. It acknowledges that there are a wide range of such staff and provides three categories into which they should fall. Annex U also provides guidance on assimilation following completion of training.

Accordingly, the Society of Radiographers feels it is important to provide this advice to
NHS employing organisations in the UK, and to its members.

Practice educators play a key role in the profession and The Society and College of Radiographers is pleased to launch this scheme for accrediting Practice Educators and sets up a UK register of Practice Educators.

This joint document follows on from one of the recommendations of “Towards Safer Radiotherapy” which was to  implement in vivo dosimetry.