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Two scanners will help reduce waiting times when installed in Derbyshire in the next few months, hospital officials say. The MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanner will help reduce waiting times at Derbyshire Royal Infirmary to less than two months for most patients.
The wait for an MRI scan is currently around 36 weeks on average.
The average waiting time for a CT scan will remain at around 2-3 weeks on average, a hospital spokesman said.
The new CT (computerised tomography) scanner will allow the hospital to see more urgent patients within days.
It is hoped the CT scanner will be ready from December 2004, and the MRI scanner in spring 2005.
Paul Selmic, imaging general manager, said: "These new scanners will have probably the highest impact (as any of our waiting time initiatives) and this is therefore great news for our patients."
The Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust already has two CT scanners and one MRI scanner in operation.
The MRI scanners, which can detect cancer, stroke and other health problems, can cost as much as �500,000 each.
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