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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2653696/Efforts to reduce wait times for MRI have focused on increasing the number of diagnostic imaging devices, as Canada lags far behind other countries in this regard. For instance, Japan and the United States have 35.3 and 19.5 MRI units per million population, respectively, whereas Canada has only 4.6. (Stein 2005). The number of MRI scanners in Canada is lower than the median of 6.1 scanners per million for all countries within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Stein 2005). The optimal number of MRI machines per capita has not been established, and the number of scanners does not indicate the number of patients scanned; however, it does provide an indication of capacity. While Canadian provinces have recently increased the number of imaging devices, it is unlikely that Canada will have such ready access to imaging as these other countries. Therefore, other approaches to wait time reduction are needed.
Lives are at risk because of a desperate shortage of MRI scanners in the NHS to diagnose cancer, an international report has found.
In a bitter irony, it was UK scientists who were instrumental in inventing the scanners which are now credited with saving lives throughout the world.
Yet we have fewer of them than almost all other Western countries – and even developing countries such as Turkey and former Communist states such as Slovakia.
Read more: Britain has fewer MRI machines than almost any other Western country | Daily Mail Online
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Probably helps to understand the impact your delusional dreams of free healthcare actually have before typing.