On 10/02/2018 00:36, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
bert wrote:
I had an MRI scan done recently on the NHS. Also by a private company.
And this in London. Where you'd think the large hospitals could make
full use of their own. Rather than paying for a private companies
profits.

So why didn't you exercise your patients choice and insist on a scan in
an NHS hospital?

My local hospital - a very large one - didn't offer it. Which surprised me.


I was told by one of the consultants that if they find something using
MRI they probably can't treat it anyway.
That was a few years ago when they used other tests first but some
appear to use MRI even when its a something minor these days.

I have had three CT scans since November so they might have to use MRI
on me if the radiation dose gets much higher.