A Capacity Planning Toolkit for Radiopharmacy Services in the UK Print E-mail
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Background

Guidelines for the Provision of Radiopharmacy Support to Nuclear Medicine were published as a joint report from the British Insitute of Radiology, British Nuclear Medicine Society and the UK Radiopharmacy Group in August 2000 [1].

It defined various categories of Radiopharmacy technical support to a Nuclear Medicine department. This document consolidates that work and provides a toolkit for planning comprehensive Radiopharmacy services in line with cliical governance and the modern regulatory framework.

Radiopharmacy services involve more than simply product supply. Although smaller Nuclear Medicine departments may contract out the Radiopharmacy service, most larger departments require a unit on site to provide a clinical and scientific Radiopharmacy service to underpin Nuclear edicine.

General functions include:
  • 1. Manufacture and supply of radiopharmaceuticals
  • 2. Dispensing of individual patient doses
  • 3. Quality control of radiopharmaceuticals
  • 4. Quality Assurance and Quality Management Systems
  • 5. Research and Development
  • 6. Education and training
  • 7. Clinical pharmaceutical service to Nuclear Medicine
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