S.L. 585.1 Art. 68Undertakings.

Undertakings shall ensure that:

(a) medical exposures shall take place under the clinical responsibility of a practitioner;

(b) in medical radiological practices, a medical physics expert shall be appropriately involved, the level of involvement being commensurate with the radiological risk posed and is given in the Table 1 of the Twentieth Schedule;

(c) practitioners, medical physics experts and those entitled to carry out practical aspects of medical radiological procedures shall be involved in the optimization process; with each another in the justification process of individual medical exposures;

(e) wherever practicable and prior to the exposure taking place, the practitioner and the referrer, is to ensure that the patient or their representative is provided with adequate information relating to the benefits and risks associated with the radiation dose from the medical exposure. Similar information as well as relevant guidance shall be given to carers and comforters, in accordance with paragraph (b) of regulation 66(6).