MRI delays troubling England as well as Canada

Patient delays related to MRI exams seem to be contagious—and even capable of crossing the Atlantic.

Earlier this week came word of a problem with wait times to get scanned in Saskatchewa, Canada. Now we’re hearing about trouble getting results, and possibly scan appointments as well, from England.

“There should be a telephone helpline for patients to ring up to gauge some idea of when their results should be available,” Dr. Nainesh Chotai of Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, East Midlands, told the BBC.

Delays affected 1,300 MRI scan patients in Leicester, U.K., in October and, by the end of November, 738 patients had been waiting more than four weeks, according to the Beeb.

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