Guidance

Radiotherapy: advancing safer radiotherapy

Guidance for radiotherapy providers on improving patient safety.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Published: 27 May 2025
• Last updated: 28 August 2025
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  1. 28 August 2025

     Added self-assessment tool.

  2. 22 July 2025

     Added link to RTE bulletins.

  3. 28 May 2025

     Updated page from 'Research & Analysis' to 'Guidance' with no change to content.

  4. 27 May 2025

     First published.

Documents

Advancing safer radiotherapy

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Self-assessment tool for radiotherapy providers

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Details

‘Advancing safer radiotherapy’ has been designed by the multi-disciplinary radiotherapy community to provide guidance on how to place a greater focus on the patient as an active, valued participant in safety. It develops existing national recommendations, in place since the publication of ‘Towards Safer Radiotherapy’ in 2008, to reflect and consolidate contemporary approaches to patient safety.

Safer radiotherapy e-bulletins

Previous editions of our Safer radiotherapy e-bulletins are available online.

The aim of the e-bulletin is to provide a regular update on the analysis by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) of radiotherapy event (RTE) reports.

Subscribe to the Safer radiotherapy publications.