As to public money, it costs about £40 because the MRI is running all the time - once you have bought the machine the cost of doing more images is basically salaries, but the employees are paid already. Good old NHS rationing more like!
Fair enough comment, a fact I wasn't aware of.
Can we please have open access in primary care then?
Have you got any up to date pathways homon? I'm still working to the Royal College of Physiotherapy stuff. Should our threshold for referral be lower?
Might stop some innapropriate lumbar x-rays.
