Guidance

Radiotherapy: good practice

Supplementary guidance to support the radiotherapy community. Published as part of the radiotherapy newsletter of the Health Protection Agency, now part of PHE.

Documents

Good practice in radiotherapy error and near miss reporting

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Learning from the past 10 years of the radiotherapy clinical site visit

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Details

These 2 documents are supplementary guidance to support the radiotherapy community in applying the ‘Towards Safer Radiotherapy’ error report classification and coding system from the Development of learning from radiotherapy errors guidance.

See the UK Government Web Archive for earlier guidance.

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Published 1 August 2010
Last updated 30 March 2021 + show all updates
  1. Added link to 'Development of learning from radiotherapy errors' guidance.

  2. Archived HPA Good practice in radiotherapy error reporting series 1 to 4.

  3. Added 'Good practice in radiotherapy error and near miss reporting'.

  4. Added: 'Learning from the past 10 years of the radiotherapy clinical site visit'.

  5. First published.