The background to the establishment of the Register of Clinical Technologists, and a focus on an ‘equivalence route to registration’ for experienced clinical technologists.
Iain Threlkeld BEng(Hons), CEng, FIHEEM, MIPEM, head of Clinical Engineering at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, looks at the background to the establishment of the Register of Clinical Technologists, and describes a new ‘equivalence route’ to registration designed for experienced clinical technologists with a suitable degree-level qualification.
In 2000 the Voluntary Register of Clinical Technologists (VRCT) was set up as a collaboration of three professional bodies, The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), The Association of Renal Technologists (ART), and the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), formally the IEE. The aim of the VRCT was to bring together clinical technologists who met the required standards of competence, and to hold their names on a voluntary register, ready to transfer to a statutory register when the time came. Due to changes in government policy towards professional registration, the VRCT was not accepted as a statutory register, so remains voluntary.
Role of clinical technologists
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