Martine Ann Mallinson

1 Introduction Across the healthcare sector patient safety is paramount, this includes diagnostic imaging where practice is designed to minimise harm [1, 2]. With advances in technology and interventions, safety processes are essential and the imaging workforce is central to this increasingly complex speciality [3, 4]. Given the hazards and clinical risks associated with different imaging modalities, safety standards and pre-procedural patient screening is commonplace internationally [1, 2].