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Wait Times for Scan Results - totally unacceptable

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"Wait Times for Scan Results - totally unacceptable"

About: Southmead Hospital

Please be aware that the wait times for MRI Scan results is currently 8 - 10 weeks from the date of your scan. Why does anyone in the NHS regard this as acceptable?

This forces me into going private - perhaps the NHS needs to go the same way as it can clearly no longer cope.

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Response from Southmead Hospital 4 years ago
Southmead Hospital

Submitted on 03/12/2019 at 11:15
Published on nhs.uk at 13:45

Dear Anonymous,

The Imaging Department would like to assure patients waiting for MRI results that scans are reported in order of urgency with very urgent scans being reported within a few days.

Unfortunately scans assigned by the Consultant Radiologists with a priority of routine are currently taking longer than we would like to be reported. The wait for a report varies by the specialist required to review the images and make the report. The Longest waits for results are for Musculoskeletal MRI. As part of our working practice we are currently outsourcing reports of which MRI is part of this process. This is not the service we aspire to provide and we are working hard to try to resolve the current situation.

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