quality assurance

Quality and accuracy of vascular ultrasound equipment

Quality assurance (QA) is essential to ensure the safety of patients, through checking the integrity, function and accuracy of equipment, and is mandatory under the Health and Social Care Act. A QA programme is also required by inspecting bodies and accreditation schemes such as the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Quality Standard for Imaging (QSI). […]

Dr Nick Dudley

Multi-Medix

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Quality assurance for proton therapy

The NHS had the world’s first hospital-based proton beam centre in 1989 at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre. It is a low energy facility and is used for treating cancer of the eye. Now the government has invested in two high energy facilities, in Manchester and London, and there are a small number of private facilities […]

Alison Warry, Andy Poynter

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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