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  • Medical Imaging
  • Radiography
  • Healthcare Professional Development

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  • Sonographers in the UK often register as radiographers, creating career structure misalignments.
  • Existing health professional frameworks do not comfortably accommodate the master's level qualifications and higher banding of sonographers.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore practicing sonographers' views on a potential graduate sonographer role.
  • To investigate the development of a clinical competence framework for a sonographer skills escalator.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative study utilizing an interpretative framework.
  • Semi-structured interviews with ten purposively selected sonographers.
  • Thematic analysis of interview transcripts.

Main Results:

  • Participants found it difficult to define roles and competences for graduate (band 5) sonographers.
  • More suggestions were provided for band 6 sonographer roles.
  • Identified themes included implementing change, clinical frameworks, and competence boundaries.

Conclusions:

  • Clinical competences are key for defining roles, but their use for advanced practitioners is debated.
  • Skills development exists across graduate to consultant sonographer levels.
  • Advanced practice sonographers need a focus on capabilities over competences to align with new frameworks.