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We heartily invite you to participate in the opening metting of the IAEA TC Project POL9028 (Preventing Tissue Reactions in Interventional Procedures) carried out by the National Centre for Radiation Protection in Health Care as part of the technical cooperation of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The event will be held on March 26-27, 2024.

More information about symposium are available in the Project POL9028- Opening meeting – March 26-27, 2024 tab

We would like to inform that in 2024, the National Centre for Radiation Protection in Health Care will start implementing a new project POL9028 entitled “Preventing Tissue Reactions in Interventional Procedures”. The project will be implemented as part of the Technical Cooperation Programme of the International Atomic Energy Agency and is addressed to interventional radiology centres from all over the country.

The project aims to raise the awareness of medical staff participating in the implementation of interventional procedures by promoting those procedures in which radiation protection of the patient is part of good medical practice. During the implementation of the Project, many training courses are planned, enriched with a series of open workshops and study visits to leading foreign interventional radiology centres. In addition, it is also planned to conduct the first national survey on the occurrence of deterministic effects resulting from the interventional procedures, which will set the scene for the future efforts in promoting awareness and safety culture. The main goal is also creating of Simulation Centre in NCRPHC with IR virtual training simulator including the radiation protection module and mobile real-time personal dosimetry system to train medical staff in the field of interventional radiology procedures, including real-time visualization of ionizing radiation and its impact on the dose to the patient and staff.

All materials regarding lectures and other speeches by experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency will be made available on our website and on the National Centre’s YouTube channel.

We encourage you to visit the NCRPHC website and the Project IAEA TC POL9028  tab to follow current events regarding the project!

This year’s 15th edition of the National Conference “Ionising Radiation in Medicine” PJOMED 2024, organised by the National Centre for Radiation Protection in Health Care, will be held on June 3-4, 2024 as a hybrid event: in Łódź and online on the web platform. More information coming soon.

National Centre for Radiation Protection in Health Care (NCRPHC) has prepared the Polish language version of two important documents on clinical audits, which are the official position of the HERCA association (Heads of the European Radiological Protection Competent Authorities), the Working Group on Medical Applications.

The translated documents have already been made available for download on the website of the National Centre:

• “HERCA Position Paper Clinical Audit in medical Radiological practices, October 2019”:
  – Polish translation
  – original document in English
• “Addendum to the HERCA clinical audit position paper, HERCA-WGMA – June 2021”:
  – Polish translation
  – original document in English

(Other documents presenting official position of HERCA are available in English on the website: https://www.herca.org/documents/)

The first document presents, among others: the definition of a clinical audit and its cycle, clinical audits in terms of Directive 97/43/Euratom, other audits and inspections of radiological practices, expectations towards a clinical audit and challenges related to its implementation, and international and European clinical audit initiatives.

The second document, which is an annex and complements the first one, details the definition of a clinical audit under the BSS Directive and explains the differences between a clinical audit, a regulatory audit, and an inspection. It also discusses specific audit examples in the UK. Both documents also contain literature about audits and related European regulations.

HERCA members are the Radiation Safety Authorities in Europe, represented by their heads – the association includes 56 offices from 32 European countries. The main goal of HERCA is cooperation for radiation protection. Meetings of international experts are intended to discuss problems related to radiation protection and to develop common solutions to them. HERCA is also a forum for the share of information and experience, regarding the practical transposition of European legislation and international recommendations, for Radiation Safety Authorities.

The NCRPHC initiative to translate HERCA documents into Polish, which is part of the tasks of the National Centre in increasing the availability of publications on the use of ionising radiation in medicine, is intended to support Polish doctors, radiologists and other people interested in the use of ionising radiation in medicine in the fuller use of European solutions and proper understanding issues related to clinical audits. It may also contribute to greater appreciation of the importance of clinical audits in building and improving good radiological practices that serve the well-being of patients.

We encourage you to use the Polish versions of HERCA documents we provide!

We hereby inform that that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) organises a webinar “Radiation Protection in New Radionuclide Therapy Procedures”. This webinar will provide an overview of the radiation protection issues in using new types of radionuclide therapies, and present some practical considerations and technological tools that may contribute to the enhancement of patient protection.

Presenters:  Søren Holm (Denmark), Soma Somanesan (Singapore) and Kuangyu Shi (Switzerland)

The webinar (in English) will be held on 23 January 2024, at 3 pm CET.

More information and registration link available here. We invite you all to take part in this webinar.