Congress:
EuroSafe Imaging 2017
Keywords:
CT, Radioprotection / Radiation dose, Pelvis, Action 13 - Stakeholder engagement and collaboration, Action 12 - Information for and communication with patients, Action 12 - Cooperation with international radiation protection initiatives and other stakeholders including IAEA, WHO, ICRP, HERCA, European Commission, Action 11 - Improved patient communication, Audit and standards, Quality assurance
Authors:
M. D. R. del Rosario Perez
DOI:
10.1594/esi2017/ESI-0057
Conclusion and Recommendations
Improving health care services requires a multi-sectoral approach and multi-disciplinary partnership with a range of stakeholders.
The WHO Global Initiative on RSHCS provides a platform to support and strengthen such global partnership and collaboration.
Despite the difference between countries and regions in terms of levels of development and socio-economic conditions,
the highest standards of quality and safety in health care remain as the benchmark for all countries.
Over the past decade,
a number of campaigns have been launched at continental,
regional and national levels to promote radiation safety in medicine.
Those campaigns,
currently facilitated by the International Society of Radiology (ISR),
can be a powerful catalyst for mobilizing other regions in the same direction,
as EuroSafe Imaging has already proved to be.
Global partnership should continue expanding and more efforts should be made to integrate radiation safety into existing health care delivery policies,
strategies and regulations.