Breakfast Symposium 4: Reducing Risk and Delay in Diagnostic Imaging Pathways
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| Sunday, May 24, 2026 |
| 7:30 - 8:30 |
Overview
Sponsored by I-MED
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Seats limited | Registration essential to secure a place | Cost - no charge.
Delays, errors and communication breakdowns within diagnostic imaging pathways can significantly affect patient outcomes, clinical workflow, and medicolegal risk. This session provides general practice owners and clinicians with practical strategies to streamline referral processes, enhance diagnostic accuracy, and improve continuity of care with imaging providers. This presentation explores common clinical risk points in the referral and diagnostic pathway, including lost referrals, incomplete clinical details, incorrect study selection, and delays in booking or reporting. It will highlight how accurate, comprehensive referral information supports appropriate protocoling, prioritisation, and high-quality reporting, particularly for urgent or complex cases.
The session will also cover best-practice safety netting and follow-up processes to ensure results are reviewed, communicated, and actioned. In addition, it will examine how digital solutions—such as patient portals, automated reminders, and integrated e-referrals—can improve coordination, reduce risk, and strengthen patient safety within general practice.
Learning Outcomes • Identify clinical risk points in the imaging pathway that may lead to missed, delayed, or inappropriate diagnoses, and outline available solutions (e.g., preventing lost referrals, correcting incorrect descriptions, improving eligibility writing, and avoiding delayed bookings). • Describe the essential clinical information required to support accurate protocoling, prioritisation, and reporting, including management of combined studies and distinguishing complex from non complex referrals. • Apply best practice safety netting and follow up processes to ensure imaging results are reviewed, communicated, and actioned, with support from patient portals, reminders, e referrals, and break glass access. • Explain how delays in imaging or reporting can influence patient outcomes and subsequent clinical decisions. • Recognise how subspecialty expertise, radiation safety practices, and quality assurance activities contribute to diagnostic reliability (e.g., dose monitoring, pain tracking tools, report feedback loops). • Evaluate strategies that improve continuity of care between general practice, imaging services, and other treating clinicians, including whole practice access groups and long term record management. • Discuss future developments in imaging and referral management—such as AI supported decision tools and billing visibility—that may enhance diagnostic accuracy and timeliness.
Presenters: TBC
Delays, errors and communication breakdowns within diagnostic imaging pathways can significantly affect patient outcomes, clinical workflow, and medicolegal risk. This session provides general practice owners and clinicians with practical strategies to streamline referral processes, enhance diagnostic accuracy, and improve continuity of care with imaging providers. This presentation explores common clinical risk points in the referral and diagnostic pathway, including lost referrals, incomplete clinical details, incorrect study selection, and delays in booking or reporting. It will highlight how accurate, comprehensive referral information supports appropriate protocoling, prioritisation, and high-quality reporting, particularly for urgent or complex cases.
The session will also cover best-practice safety netting and follow-up processes to ensure results are reviewed, communicated, and actioned. In addition, it will examine how digital solutions—such as patient portals, automated reminders, and integrated e-referrals—can improve coordination, reduce risk, and strengthen patient safety within general practice.
Learning Outcomes • Identify clinical risk points in the imaging pathway that may lead to missed, delayed, or inappropriate diagnoses, and outline available solutions (e.g., preventing lost referrals, correcting incorrect descriptions, improving eligibility writing, and avoiding delayed bookings). • Describe the essential clinical information required to support accurate protocoling, prioritisation, and reporting, including management of combined studies and distinguishing complex from non complex referrals. • Apply best practice safety netting and follow up processes to ensure imaging results are reviewed, communicated, and actioned, with support from patient portals, reminders, e referrals, and break glass access. • Explain how delays in imaging or reporting can influence patient outcomes and subsequent clinical decisions. • Recognise how subspecialty expertise, radiation safety practices, and quality assurance activities contribute to diagnostic reliability (e.g., dose monitoring, pain tracking tools, report feedback loops). • Evaluate strategies that improve continuity of care between general practice, imaging services, and other treating clinicians, including whole practice access groups and long term record management. • Discuss future developments in imaging and referral management—such as AI supported decision tools and billing visibility—that may enhance diagnostic accuracy and timeliness.
Presenters: TBC
