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Today my GP referred me for a knee X-Ray. The hospital staff said he will have the results in three weeks. Why so long? I'd have thought that these days it could be e-mailed almost immediately.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Inefficient system is the reason. After living in France all those years this is one aspect of the NHS which appals me. I had several (many) X-rays there and 90% of the time I waited about 30 mins. before leaving the hospital with not only my images, but also an analysis in an envelope for me to pop into my GP's surgery -Oh! and a copy for me. Cuts out postage and many middlemen.
It's getting really silly now - my local hospital can actually do X-Ray and even MRI scans within a couple of days - but there is a three week (minimum) wait for results.
There's no excuse for it - someone needs their behind kicking for letting the radiologists get so far behind ... funnily enough those same radiologists provide a 24hr turnround for interpreting private MRI scans.
It's just heartbreaking - the PCT based NHS had virtually eliminated this sort of wait, but they were abolished for ideological reasons and this is the result three years on. A disgrace.
There's no excuse for it - someone needs their behind kicking for letting the radiologists get so far behind ... funnily enough those same radiologists provide a 24hr turnround for interpreting private MRI scans.
It's just heartbreaking - the PCT based NHS had virtually eliminated this sort of wait, but they were abolished for ideological reasons and this is the result three years on. A disgrace.
sorry i can beat that,you gp says x ray required got one same morning
and was told to phone surgery in 10 days, done that to be told doc wants to see you ok make me an appointment which the receptionist did, quickest one three and a half weeks and that would be a phonecall appointment 44 days to get result to be told you were the same as your last x ray everything was ok when i complained was told got to prioritise
and was told to phone surgery in 10 days, done that to be told doc wants to see you ok make me an appointment which the receptionist did, quickest one three and a half weeks and that would be a phonecall appointment 44 days to get result to be told you were the same as your last x ray everything was ok when i complained was told got to prioritise
fair enough, Sqad; he just wanted to see if I had pneumonia, which he had already (correctly) diagnosed. It meant however that it got steadily worse for three weeks while I waited for the radiologists to report the results. In the end I was on antibiotics for more than a month. I'd like to think that could be more expeditious.