This document gives guidance on when to report clinical incidents to outside agencies. The BNMS understands that the DoH is currently reviewing policy on the reporting of incidents so this document may need to be updated in the near future.

Created 10/2010 Reviewed and Rewritten by Jil Segerman 6/2011

Reviewed by Alan Perkins 2016

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BNMS Gamma Camera Tender Questionnaire, GSTT Additional Questions for Transmission Scanning using CT - Part B

BNMS Camera Tender version 3.1.4 Part A

Gamma Camera and Data Acquisition, (Version 3.1), Part B

Data Processing System (Version 3.1), Part C

Gamma Camera PET (Version 3.1), Part D

BNMS Camera Tender version 3.1.4 Part E

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This guideline should be read in conjunction with the BNMS Generic guidelines. The purpose of this guideline is to assist specialists in nuclear medicine and radionuclide radiology in recommending, performing, interpreting and reporting the results of hepatobiliary scintigraphy. This guideline may be used to assist individual departments to formulate their own local protocols.

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The aim of this document is to provide a standardised questionnaire as part of the gammaprobe procurement process. It can be used to enable matching of the system features andallows the user requirements to be objectively assessed. It will also help those purchaserswho have had no experience in the purchase of gamma probes. See also the document “Guidelines on User Evaluation and Selection of IntraoperativeGamma Probes” (UK Probe Working Group).

Version 1, Issued October 2004

Prepared by the UK Gamma Probe Working Group

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Find previous versions of GFR Guidelines below , these have been replaced by 2018 version on the Clinical Guidelines page

2010 guidelines

2004 guidelines

This document is an edited transcript of a workshop which took place during the Spring 2003 meeting of the British Nuclear Medicine Society.

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(Version 1, July 2005).

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This guideline must be read in conjunction with the BNMS Generic Guidelines The purpose of this guideline is to assist specialists in Nuclear medicine and Radionuclide Radiology in recommending, performing, interpreting and reporting the results of renal cortical scintigraphy (DMSA). This guideline will assist individual departments in the formulation of their own local protocols.

Revised February 2011 - due for review

Renal Cortical Scintigraphy Guidelines 2011

Combined Procedure Guidelines of SNM, EANM and BNMS for SPECT/CT and PETCT Imaging.

The purpose of this procedure guideline is to assist physicians and radiologist in recommending, performing, interpreting and reporting the results of SPECT/CT for imaging of adult and pediatric patients.

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SPECT/CT and PETCT PDF

The British Nuclear Medicine Society offers purchasers of nuclear medicine services the following policy statement on standards for the safe practice of Nuclear Medicine.

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This is intended as a guide to users who are purchasing intraoperative gamma probesystems, aimed mainly at institutions having little or no previous experience in theevaluation, purchase and use of such systems. Publication of this document by the UKGamma Probe Group has been prompted by the planned national introduction of thesentinel node biopsy procedure into the management of Breast Cancer within the UK (1).

This document is intended to provide some assistance in this process, outlining key criteriaagainst which the user may evaluate systems marketed for this application and make anappropriate selection from their findings. A technical specification questionnaire documentis also available for use in the purchase process.

Version 1, Issued October 2004. Prepared by the UK Gamma Probe Working Group.

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