Improving Patients’ Access to Medicines: A Guide to Implementing Diagnostic Radiographer and Therapeutic Radiographer Prescribing within the NHS in the UK (Second Edition)

This guide sets out for organisations the governance, administrative and procedural steps needed to enable diagnostic and therapeutic radiographers to act as independent and supplementary prescribers, and it provides information and advice on good practice in the implementation of radiographer independent and supplementary prescribing. This document includes updated information reflecting the December 31st 2023 change that allows all therapeutic radiographer independent prescribers to prescribe from a list of Controlled Drugs where their scope of practice requires this.  

This guidance should be read in conjunction with Practice Guidance for Radiographer Independent and/or Supplementary Prescribers (Second Edition). 

The SoR would like to express its gratitude for the significant leadership and work undertaken by Dianne Hogg on updating this document. Her efforts have been instrumental in ensuring that these documents are up-to-date and accurately interpret legislation. We also wish to recognise the significant contributions of many others who have supported the work to achieve legislative change and to ensure that this guidance document is relevant and useful. Their contribution is acknowledged at the end of this document.