Quality assurance in diagnostic radiography: are we using it correctly and what is its future?

In this paper the author aims to instigate discussion on the manner in which we, as a profession, currently approach and perform quality assurance. To what use we put the results and the way in which quality assurance should progress in the future. It is based mainly on his experience as radiographic service manager of an eight-roomed x-ray department with responsibility for the radiographic services for one of the centres of the DHSS breast cancer early detection project.