Wednesday 03 July 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_7847
Date Request Received: 22/03/2024 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 15/05/2024 00:00:00
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Request Summary: MRI equipment provision
Request Category: Companies
| Question Number 1: I would like to submit the following FOI request - as attached. This is in relation to MRI equipment provision within your trust/health board:- How many MRI Scanners do you currently have in the trust/health board? | |
| Answer To Question 1: Two | |
| Question Number 2: How many MRI scans are requested each year? | |
| Answer To Question 2: Please see our response to the following questions in the Excel spreadsheet attached: Q2, 3, 5, 6 and 7. We have provided data for calendar years 2018 - 2023. Q2: Year Number MRI scans performed 2018 10,309 2019 9,926 2020 8,961 2021 11,133 2022 10,667 2023 13,982 | |
| Question Number 3: How many MRI scans are done in a year? | |
| Answer To Question 3: Year Number MRI scans performed 2018 10,309 2019 9,926 2020 8,961 2021 11,133 2022 10,667 2023 13,982 | |
| Question Number 4: Which make and model of MRI Scanner do you have installed across the trust/health board? | |
| Answer To Question 4: Siemans Healthcare, wide-bore 1.5T | |
| Question Number 5: What is your ‘Do not attend’ rate? | |
| Answer To Question 5: Year Do not attend rate 2018 4.51% 2019 5.44% 2020 4.97% 2021 4.96% 2022 3.58% 2023 5.03% | |
| Question Number 6: What is your failed MRI scan rate i.e. scan abandoned midway during an investigation? | |
| Answer To Question 6: Year Failed MRI scans rate 2018 0.73% 2019 0.15% 2020 0.67% 2021 0.59% 2022 0.19% 2023 0.06% | |
| Question Number 7: What percentage of your failed and DNA rates are due to claustrophobia? | |
| Answer To Question 7: Year Claustrophobia rate 2018 0.37% 2019 0.90% 2020 1.98% 2021 1.13% 2022 1.24% 2023 0.70% | |
| Question Number 8: What is the number of patients per month referred to an open MRI scanner? | |
| Answer To Question 8: Information not held | |
| Question Number 9: The cost per patient to refer to an open MRI scanner (tariff you’re charged). | |
| Answer To Question 9: £300. | |
| Question Number 10: What was the cited reason as to why the patient was referred to an open scanner? | |
| Answer To Question 10: Radiology Response: this is typically because a patient is too large and or too heavy to fit in our scanners. Weight limit 250kg, the width of the bore of the scanner is 70cm so patients wider than this will not fit. | |
| Question Number 11: What is your Projected MRI demand within the trust/health board (% increase)? | |
| Answer To Question 11: 18% over next 3 years. Radiology Response: we have seen a 19% increase in MRI activity over the last 12 months and expect this to continue. | |
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