GPs are being urged to refer patients with TIA and stroke quickly, but poor organisation in radiology units means over half wait longer than 24 hours for diagnostic scans.
Audit data shows that 55 per cent of patients admitted to hospital with suspected stroke wait more than 24 hours to undergo a diagnostic MRI.
A sub-analysis of the stroke audit of all hospitals in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2006 shows that although 93 per cent of patients are scanned after admission, just 9 per cent were scanned within three hours of suspected stroke and 45 per cent within 24 hours.
source: Healthcarerepublic
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