IR(ME)R annual report 2023/24

Published: 26 September 2024 Page last updated: 26 September 2024

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Overall notifications in 2023/24

From 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024, we received 819 statutory notifications of significant accidental and unintended exposures (SAUE notifications) that met the defined thresholds of notifiable events across all methods of treatment (modalities).

This compares with 727 received in 2022/23, an increase of 12%.


Figure 1: Total notifications received 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 by modality

Chart showing 447 diagnostic imaging notifications, 244 radiotherapy and 128 nuclear medicine.

Source: CQC SAUE notifications data 2023/24
Note: Percentages may not add up to 100% as they have been rounded to the nearest whole number