A recent investigation by the Care Quality Commission has revealed disturbing delays and processes in the assessment of diagnostic scans in the NHS.
A recent report in The Times noted that nationwide there are currently approximately 300,000 scans – x-rays, MRI scans, CT scans – awaiting assessment.
Alongside this, it was revealed that a review is being undertaken to assess the interpretation of diagnostic scans in NHS hospitals. This was prompted by the discovery by the Care Quality Commission that a number of cancer patients at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth had suffered harm when the assessment of scans had been passed to junior doctors who were not trained in this skill.
According to The Times, the president of the Royal College of Radiologists, Nicola Strickland, commented that, “we know the reality of patient imaging studies sitting unreported is not isolated to Portsmouth.”
She further stressed the need for greater training of doctors, observing that patients will otherwise “spend weeks with the stress of not knowing if they have cancer or another serious disease. In some cases that may lead to their condition advancing.”
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