16 Jun 2022

Wellington hospital sending patients to private MRI

From Morning Report, 7:40 am on 16 June 2022

Wellington hospital is being forced to spend millions of extra dollars sending patients to private hospitals for MRI and CT scans as its old scanning machines fail to cope.

The average waiting time for outpatient scans has grown by a third since March, to four weeks for a CT and seven weeks for an MRI, with hundreds of people in the queue.

Phil Pennington has the story.