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.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 1 August 2010
• Last updated: 30 March 2021 — See all updates

Documents

Good practice in radiotherapy error and near miss reporting

Ref: PHE publications gateway reference GW-1113

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

Ref: PHE publications gateway number: 2018540

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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.

Subscribe to the ‘Safer radiotherapy’ newsletter.

Published 1 August 2010
Last updated 30 March 2021 + show all updates

1. 30 March 2021

   Added link to 'Development of learning from radiotherapy errors' guidance.

2. 1 May 2020

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

3. 13 February 2020

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

4. 25 October 2018

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

5. 1 August 2010

   First published.