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Schedule 1— Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation Scheme – Standards
(sections 9 and 10)

Part 1—Organisational Standards

Standard 1.1   Safety and Quality Manual Standard

The diagnostic imaging practice must prepare a comprehensive Safety and Quality Manual that includes all diagnostic imaging accreditation scheme (DIAS) related policies and addresses DIAS standards, including the title and /or names of the persons at the diagnostic imaging practice who develop, approve, implement, maintain, and review these policies.

Required Evidence

A documented Safety and Quality Manual for the diagnostic imaging practice which addresses the practice's:
    •          governance, policies and procedures regarding DIAS (Standard 1.1);
    •          registration and licensing of personnel (Standard 1.2);
    •          radiation safety and optimised radiation technique charts (Standards 1.3 and 3.2);
    •          diagnostic imaging equipment and servicing (Standards 1.4 and 1.5);
    •          healthcare associated infection policies and procedures (Standard 1.6);
    •          provision of diagnostic imaging services and reporting and recording image findings policies (Standards 2.1, 4.1 and 4.2);
    •          consumer consent and  information policies (Standard 2.2);
    •          patient identification and procedure matching policies (Standard 2.3);
    •          medication management policies (Standard 2.4);
    •          diagnostic imaging protocols (Standard 3.1); and
    •          consumer and stakeholder feedback and complaints policies (Standard 4.3).

Evidence which demonstrates that mechanisms are in place to evaluate, audit, review and monitor each one of the Standards and their specific requirements.

Standard 1.2   Registration and Licensing Standard (Entry Level Standard)

Staff, students, contractors or locums and any other practitioner eligible to provide or assist in the provision of  diagnostic imaging services to the practice must provide evidence of and maintain all appropriate and current registration and/or licences to undertake diagnostic imaging procedures.

Required Evidence

Copies of each registered health practitioner's Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) registration documentation, or an AHPRA registration number which can be verified on the public register. These practitioners include:
    •          medical practitioners;
    •          dentists;
    •          medical radiation practitioners;
    •          nurses; and
    •          allied health practitioners (including podiatrists, osteopaths, chiropractors and physiotherapists).

Copies of the AHPRA registration documentation of each student who is registered on the AHPRA student register.

Where the practice provides imaging modalities that involve ionising radiation, copies of each registered health practitioner's Commonwealth, State or Territory radiation user licence (or similar), or a registration number which can be verified on the public register, if required in the relevant jurisdiction.

Copies of each non-registered health practitioner's Commonwealth, State or Territory radiation use licence, or a licence number which can be verified, if required in the relevant jurisdiction.

Where the practice provides ultrasound services, copies of each sonographer's statement of accreditation on the Australian Sonographer Accreditation Register (ASAR) or a registration number which can be verified on the ASAR register for the purpose of determining registration on the Services