This course is part of a two-year cycle on quality management in radiotherapy, consisting of two complementary modules:

• Risk management and patient safety
• Quality improvement and indicators.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand the cause, frequency and effects of incidents/accidents in a radiotherapy department
• Understand the principles of reactive management to incidents (registration, analysis and feed back to the Quality Management System) and of proactive management of safety (incident prevention)
• Consider risk management in relation to the changing of ICT dynamic in radiotherapy processes
• Know how to communicate around radiotherapy incidents, with the patient and his/her relatives, within the department itself and with the media.

 A draft of the programme is here.