Putting numbers on justification: quantifying benefit and detriment from medical exposure

Kotre, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1890-1160 (2025) Putting numbers on justification: quantifying benefit and detriment from medical exposure. In: UK Imaging and Oncology Congress 2025 (UKIO 2025): Community & Consciousness: One Health, 2-4 June 2025, Liverpool ACC, UK. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

What’s the problem?
The IR(ME)R 2017 Regulations are the law.
The IR(ME)R Regulations say that medical radiation exposures must be justified by the practitioner as showing significant net benefit.
The ‘direct health benefits to the individual’ and ‘the individual detriment the exposure may cause’ have to be considered.
We strive professionally to obey the law.
So are medical exposures justified in terms of benefit and detriment?
We don’t really know.

What really happens.
IR(ME)R stipulates that a Practitioner takes a decision on justification.
The Care Quality Commission inspect to ensure that for medical exposures the Practitioner is identified, has appropriate training and entitlement and that a system is in place to record the fact of justification.
The actual justification remains a medical decision.
That decision is based on incomplete information.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
Departments:	Institute of Health > Medical Sciences
Additional Information:	Dr John Kotre, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Cumbria, UK.
Depositing User:	Anna Lupton
Date Deposited:	11 Jun 2025 09:59
Last Modified:	12 Jun 2025 08:00
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/8917

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