CASE - Accreditation

Consortium for the Accreditation of Sonographic Education (CASE)

A Directory of CASE Accredited Courses is published and updated annually. It contains standardised information on all UK ultrasound education programmes that hold current CASE accreditation.

Download directory - PDF

Future open forum and training days

CASE Accreditor Training – October 2010
The next CASE accreditor training session will be taking place on 21st October 2010 at Sheffield Hallam University.

The day will begin with registration & coffee at 9.15am. Evaluation & closing remarks are scheduled to take place at 3.30pm.

Attendance is free, however, CASE is unable to reimburse travel expenses.

For full details of the programme, and to book your place, please contact the CASE Coordinator by email: michelel@sor.org

CASE Open Forum – March 2011
CASE would like to give you advance notice of its next planned open forum due to be held on Tuesday 15th March 2011 at the University of Portsmouth. The subject for this open forum will be Clinical Competency.

A full programme will appear in the October 2010 CASE Newsletter, together with a registration form, so for now, please mark this date in your diary.

March 2010 - New guidance on Ultrasound training, employment and registration issued.
Click here to download a PDF of this document.
Please note that we are unable to enter into further discussion on this subject.

July 2009 - New CASE Handbook issued.
We are pleased to announce that the new CASE Accreditation Handbook is now available.
Please click here to download a PDF of this document.

Programme and focused course accreditation by CASE

Accreditation proformas for both full programme and focused course accreditation can now be downloaded from here.

Lead accreditation report proformas are also available via the link above

The Consortium for the Accreditation of Sonographic Education (CASE) was formed in 1993. It currently consists of six organisations:

CASE was formed through the common desire to ensure that the education and training of sonographers in the United Kingdom was delivered at the highest level. All members share common concerns that standards of service provision and education are developed in parallel with increasing demand and improving technology. All members will strive to create an environment in which education and training is maximised. This will make validation and accreditation to be as robust and straightforward as possible.

CASE's philosophy is to promote best ultrasound practise through the accreditation of those training programmes that develop safe and competent ultrasound practitioners. This should be delivered at postgraduate level. The majority of its activities relate to supporting those Institutions that offer, or wish to offer courses leading to the award of a Masters, Postgraduate Diploma/Certificate in Medical or clinical Ultrasound.

In addition to offering accreditation of new, and re-accreditation of established, ultrasound education programmes CASE undertakes annual monitoring of the courses it has accredited. The information obtained is fed back to the Institutions both on an individual basis and via the annual CASE report.

A CASE Open forum is normally held twice a year. All individuals with an interest in sonographic education are welcome to attend. It is an opportunity for constituent organisations and for CASE accredited Institutions to discuss aspects of sonographic education. These meetings provide a regular means of direct communication between the Institutions and CASE, enabling the views of the Institutions to be considered when deciding CASE policy.

Each member organisation is unique and has its own obligations to its membership and its own agenda. But CASE provides a forum for the interchange of ideas in which shared views may be synthesised, and thus inform education and training programmes.



Presentations from CASE Accreditor Training Day, May 2010
NSC press briefing on NHS FASP 13 April 2010
PG SHEET - Ultrasound training employment and registration, March 2010
Presentations from CASE Accreditor Training Day, June 2009
Presentations from the CASE Open Forum on Ultrasound Physics
Presentations from the CASE Education & Training Session at BMUS 2006
Presentations from the CASE Education & Training Session at BMUS 2005
Presentations from the CASE Open Forum on Clinical Competency 2008
CASE Accredited Courses
Clinical Placements
CASE Newsletters


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CASE is the Consortium for the Accreditation of Sonographic Education (CASE) Co-ordinator: Ms Michele Landau Contact address: c/o SCoR, 207 Providence Square, Mill Street, London, SE1 2EW Tel: 020 7740 7226 E-mail: michelel@sor.org Current CASE Chair: Rosemary Lee, email address: hrlsupportus@googlemail.com