Under Irish law, HIQA has been designated as the competent authority for medical exposure to ionising radiation. As one of its functions, HIQA is required to publish guidelines for justifying medical radiological procedures in people who have no known disease or symptoms. Justification means making sure that the benefits outweigh the risks involved. These draft guidelines published for consultation specifically relate to the use of medical radiological procedures outside of health screening programmes in people with no known disease or symptoms.
This document contains eight guideline statements which were developed through a scoping review and extensive stakeholder engagement. The guidelines describe a set of requirements for those providing medical radiological procedures to asymptomatic individuals. HIQA will use these guidelines to investigate, review and monitor services in the public and private setting providing medical radiological procedures to asymptomatic individuals.