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To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will bring forward proposals to ensure that all hospitals adopt common standards of performing and recording laboratory and x-ray investigations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will bring forward proposals to ensure that all hospitals adopt common standards of performing and recording laboratory and x-ray investigations.
Asked by
Adrian Sanders
(Liberal Democrat)
Answered by
Simon Burns
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
10 October 2011
For answer on
12 October 2011
Answered on
17 October 2011
The provision of diagnostic services is a regulated activity for which the Care Quality Commission (CQC) sets essential and common registration requirements to ensure basic standards of safety and quality. The Department has also supported a range of measures intended to reduce variation in the way investigations are undertaken and recorded, working with relevant professional organisations such as the Royal College of Pathologists, Royal College of Radiologists and the Society of Radiographers to identify and implement opportunities for improving standards of professional practice in addition to the codes of practice already in use.For pathology laboratory investigations, the Department is working with Connecting for Health and the Royal College of Pathologists to develop the first National Laboratory Medicine Catalogue (NLMC). This will enable a standardised form of requesting and reporting pathology results intended to improve patient safety and outcomes by ensuring that all pathology tests use the same terminology and units of measurement. Through minimising local variations in pathology test requesting and reporting, the NLMC will also improve general practitioner and trust ability to commission and provide services across regional boundaries. This will increase options for patient choice.In addition, the Department has asked NHS Improvement to work with pathology laboratories across England to support the introduction of LEAN methodologies into laboratory practice. These will further assist standardisations in professional practice.For x-ray investigations in radiology, also known as 'medical exposures', the standardisation of the way tests are undertaken is effected by legislation. The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2000 as amended 2006 and 2011 (IR(ME)R) are intended to protect individuals undergoing medical exposures against the dangers associated with the use of ionising radiation and define a number of obligations. The key requirements of IR(ME)R are that all such procedures are carry a net benefit to the individual (i.e. justified); a radiation dose as low as reasonably practicable is used (optimised); and that all personnel directly involved with the medical exposure are adequately trained for the tasks they carry out.In addition the Royal College of Radiologists, in collaboration with the Society and College of Radiographers, have introduced an Imaging Service Accreditation Scheme. The Department supports and encourages organisations to be accredited against this scheme.When recording x-ray investigations, standardisation is encouraged through use of technology. The main computer systems used in collecting patient information are Radiology Information Systems and for storing images, the Picture Archiving Communication Systems. These are procured to common specifications developed by the Connecting for Health programme.
Subjects
Standards; X-rays
Date
17 October 2011
Reference
74272; 533 c792-3W
House
House of Commons
Type
Select Committee written evidence;
Parliamentary committees
Committee
Science and Technology Committee
Subjects
Facilities; Research; X-rays
Date
11 July 2011
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department spent on storing radiology records in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008, (d) 2009 and (e) 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department spent on storing radiology records in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008, (d) 2009 and (e) 2010.
Asked by
Mark Garnier
(Conservative)
Answered by
Lord Robathan
(Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
30 June 2011
For answer on
4 July 2011
Answered on
11 July 2011
This information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Subjects
Armed forces; Medical records; X-rays
Date
11 July 2011
Reference
63936; 531 c53W
House
House of Commons
Type
House of Commons papers; Select Committee oral evidence;
Parliamentary committees
Committee
Science and Technology Committee
Subjects
Facilities; Research; X-rays; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council; Science and Technology Facilities Council; Prospect
Date
11 July 2011
Reference
HC 1364-i 2010-12
House
House of Commons
Type
Select Committee written evidence;
Parliamentary committees
Committee
Science and Technology Committee
Subjects
Facilities; Research; X-rays
Date
4 July 2011
House
House of Commons
Type
Select Committee written evidence;
Parliamentary committees
Committee
Science and Technology Committee
Subjects
Facilities; Research; X-rays
Date
29 June 2011
House
House of Commons
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the evidence from independent tests of the safety of X-ray airport passenger scanners.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the evidence from independent tests of the safety of X-ray airport passenger scanners.
Asked by
Lord Krebs
(Crossbench)
Answered by
Earl Attlee
(Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
7 June 2011
The risks from the scanners have been assessed by many independent international bodies, including the UK Health Protection Agency. Tests have concluded that the dose received from being scanned is far below the allowed levels in the UK. In fact it is less than that received from natural sources in under two minutes at airline cruising altitude.
Subjects
Aviation; Airports; Health hazards; Passengers; Security; X-rays
Date
7 June 2011
Reference
9230; 728 c85WA
House
House of Lords