The RCT Management Board is responsible for the management of the Register of Clinical Technologists, which aims to protect the public by regulating the clinical technologist profession. Its full functions are set out in its Terms of Reference. The Board meets three times each year.
Membership of the Management Board comprises the Registrar and Assistant Registrar, two representatives from each of the three collaborating professional bodies (the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, the Association of Renal Technologists, and the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management), two elected Registrants and two lay members, who are not part of the technologist profession.

These lay members bring their wider perspective on healthcare and public protection.

The Board is currently seeking a new lay member to attend Board meetings and contribute to all aspects of its work to bring their wider perspective on healthcare and public protection.

Topics discussed at meetings typically include education and training for clinical technologists; policies and procedures relating to Registrants’ training, admission to the Register, continuing professional development and other professional activities; promotion of the Register in the interests of public protection; and communication with Registrants. A separate Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) handles disciplinary cases and procedures: no
member of the Management Board may sit on the PCC, as the Management Board is the Board of appeal for Registrants who have been subject to disciplinary proceedings.