WE AIM AT PROTECTING OUR PATIENT`S HEALTH.

 

These includes

 

• Guarding patients’ rights and conserving the patients’ best interest.

• Protecting/maintaining patients’ autonomy

• Protecting patients against any type of malpractice: suspected or blatant

• Championing ethical and social justice in the provision of healthcare

• Referring patients to the most appropriate service.

 

 

 Guarding patients’ rights and conserving the patients’ best interests.

     This may be undertaken by acting on behalf of those patients who may be intimidated by the                                  situation they find themselves in or have limited competence or ability to express themselves, examples are:

1.   Representing patients’ values and rights to others.

2.    Promoting patients’ health through ensuring appropriateness of examination or treatment.

3.    Ensuring any radiation dose is appropriate and if so is kept as low as reasonably achievable

4.    Recognising when patients are too shy to complain or to ask questions or who may be feeling powerless or   intimidated by professionals or the environment.

5.    Helping patients to communicate with doctors

6.    Recognising in patients the possibility of their illiteracy or poorCOMMAND of the English language and ensuring their wants are attended to and, in some cases, stating their preferences

7.    Recognising those patients who may be unaware of their right to refuse treatment and supporting those who may choose not to have treatment

 

Protecting/maintaining patients’ autonomy

1.    Providing appropriate information in order to gain legal andVALID informed consent. The radiographer may be the best person to provide information to enable the service user to appreciate all options available to them prior to giving consent to an imaging procedure or a course of radiotherapy

2.   Providing sufficient information for patients to take decisions whilst at the same time realising that a requirement to make a decision may be stressful for a patient

3.   Recognising that most individuals are competent to make decisions

4.   Respecting a patient’s decision even if you do not agree with it

5.   Recognising those who may be unable to comprehend instructions so clarifying information and/or instructions

 

 

 Protecting patients against any type of malpractice; suspected or  blatant

1.    Identifying illegal, unethical or incompetent behaviour shown to patients by other members of the healthcare         team

2.   Reporting any incidents to the most appropriateAGENCY on behalf of a patient or other service user

     Malpractice includes negligence, incompetence, unprofessional behaviour, danger to health and safety or the environment and the cover up of any of these.

 

 Championing ethical and social justice in the provision of  healthcare

1.   Striving for changes in healthcarePROVISION on behalf of individuals, communities and society through a variety of channels eg access to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanning or screening facilities

2.   Ensuring inequalities in the provision of healthcare activities or inconsistencies in care are brought to the attention of the employing authority, are followed up and subsequently corrected

3.   Participating in healthcare policy making activities at local and national level