With the creation of the radiation protection inspectorate in 2006, combined with continued growth in its resources, the ASN will be able to expand the development of long-term actions in the field of radiation protection supervision of medical installations, in particular on the basis of the findings regarding the current situation. These actions will more specifically be aimed at:

• From the radiation protection viewpoint, the ways in which new irradiation techniques can be used in radiotherapy, or new radioactive tracers can be used in nuclear medicine;

• The creation of a notification system for radiation protection incidents in medical installations, so that lessons can be learned from the data collected in this way;

• Medical radiophysics, with each establishment containing a radiotherapy, nuclear medicine, tomography or surgical radiology unit drafting a plan organising this discipline within the establishment. The ASN will closely check that these plans exist and that the resources allocated to radiophysics are appropriate and operational;

• New radiation protection supervision actions in surgical radiology;

• Implementing radiation protection assessment indicators in the medical field.