MRI scanners (FOI)

​​Request

A

Please advise how many MRI Scanners are currently held by the Trust or health service?

B

How many MRI scans are requested each year?

C

How many MRI scans are done in a year?

D

Which make and model of MRI Scanner is installed across the Trust or health service?

E

What is the ‘Do not attend’ rate?

F

What is the failed MRI scan rate?

G

What percentage of the failed and Did Not Attend rates are due to claustrophobia?

H

How many patients per month arereferred to an open MRI scanner?

I

Please confirm the cost per patient to refer to an open MRI scanner.

J

What was the cited reason as to why the patient was referred to an open scanner?

K

What is the projected MRI demand within the Trust or health service?

Response

A

Two.

B

8,300.

C

6,840.

D

Philips 1.5T Achieva (upgraded to Ingenia platform).

Philips 1.5T Ingenia.

E

1 to 2 % of appointments booked are not attended.

F

Data is not available for the rate of failed / abandoned scans. Whilst this would be documented within individual records, this cannot be reported from the central system data. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

G

0.2 %.

H to J

Health and Community Services’ (HCS’) MRI scanners are both closed units. HCS’ Radiology Department do not hold any data for referrals made for open MRI scans to be performed elsewhere. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

K

Data is not available for projected future demand for MRI scans. A Scheduled Public Authority is not obliged to create or manipulate data for the purpose of responding to Freedom of Information requests. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.​