Medical Ionising Radiation Protection SI

lonestargirl

From SI 478/2002

7.2. Medical radiological procedures may only be authorised by, and be performed under the clinical responsibility of, a practitioner.

“Practitioner” means:-

(a) a person whose name is entered on the register established under Section 26 of the Medical Practitioners Act, 1978 and who meets such other requirements as may be specified by the Medical Council from time to time to allow them to take responsibility for an individual medical exposure; or

(b) a person whose name is entered on the register established under Section 26 of the Dentists Act, 1985 and who meets such other requirements as may be specified by the Dental Council from time to time to allow them to take responsibility for an individual medical exposure; or

(c) a person whose name is entered on such other register or registers as the Minister may, from time to time, establish in relation to persons who are entitled to take clinical responsibility for an individual medical exposure and who meets such other requirements as the Minister may prescribe.

Another poster and I are having a discussion on this topic over in the health sciences forum. He maintains that chiropractic exposures are not medical exposures and, as such, do not need to be prescribed (the technology used is exactly the same). Do any legal eagles have any opinions/experience in this area?

ballsymchugh

surely if a chiropractor requires a radiograph, then they'd have to ask a doctor to request one, and need a very good reason to expose a person to radiation?

they may be able to read one and know what's going on, but don't think they can request it themselves.