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Today's Chair:
Dr Peter Rowlands
Consultant Radiologist
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospital NHS Trust
Dr Rowlands will also be presenting this morning on: Improving Radiology Reporting and managing turnaround times safely
• reducing delays in reporting imaging finding
• implementing the new national quality standards
• risk mitigation in backlogs
• self-assessing and benchmarking your performance on radiology reporting
• using key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor reporting times effectively
• the role of effective use of PACS and RIS in improving turnaround times
• monitoring and managing unreported images
• ensuring oversight of backlogs and understanding when backlogs should be escalated to
senior management?
• triggers, escalations and action: optimizing the alerts process
Improving Radiology Reporting & Escalation: Where are we now?
Dr Katharine Halliday
President
Royal College of Radiologists
• radiology reporting: where are we now?
• radiology reporting best practice and patient safety
• improving the appropriateness of referrals – digital tools that can help
• standards for education and training of reporting practitioners
• ensuring adherence to national guidelines on reporting unexpected imaging findings
• ensuring escalation and action on the basis of unexpected findings
• quality standards, solutions and moving forward