>
> Fine, but I think I'll join Matt in the devil's advocate and go one
> step further! In these days of limited bed capacity and tighter
> targets, why not simply get your scan during their first attendance,
> and then discharge them? Basically, I very rarely admit someone for a
> scan these days. It seems a rather outmoded way of doing things. If
> someone needs a scan urgently, then I scan them...immediately. If they
> need a scan non-urgently, then they get it as an outpatient. Admitting
> them for a scan seems simply like a way of temporising so that the
> radiologist doesn't have to get of his a****.
>
> Excuse the bluntness!
>
> AF
>
Agree in spades. This is the sort of daft thinking that wastes beds by the thousand and money by
the million. How does putting someone in a hospital bed get us any nearer the diagnosis? By
forcing imaging to do the test as the outpatient wait is 3 months for an urgent scan. Sorry, this is
another symptom of the NHS prevarication disease - instead of spending money on expensive
one-off purchases we'll fritter it away on admissions that are invisible expenditure.
Rowley Cottingham.
Consultant in Emergency Medicine.
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