00:00Struggling to keep up with a high volume of medical imaging, there are fears patient care
00:08is being compromised.
00:09I'm aware, unfortunately, that there are at least one and I believe probably a couple
00:15of episodes of patients that may have had a diagnosis of something that could have been
00:20treated.
00:21He says it's had serious consequences for one patient.
00:25The prognosis is not as good as it should have been.
00:28Dr Lumsden-Steele wouldn't expand on that case.
00:31It is sensitive, it is being reviewed, it is being followed up.
00:35But cited cancer as an example of the importance of timely scan results.
00:41Some are linking the backlog to outsourcing scans.
00:44What it means is that scans can be missed, that doctors aren't necessarily made aware
00:49that scans have happened when they're outsourced.
00:51Saying results aren't being properly tracked when they return to the public system.
00:57The health minister doesn't believe the backlog in radiology is harming patients.
01:01Additional resources have been deployed to drive down that backlog.
01:06The health department says urgent and critical findings are being prioritised, with the entire
01:11backlog expected to be cleared by the end of February.
01:15It includes, using, resource 123 number of technology.
01:20The service secretary starts to view the module for a zelfs surface.
01:23The new room used in Maine is possibly about the flashwall to sacrifice, based on a
01:27há ognis.
01:29The means for the public health department.
01:32What exactly can we ask?
01:33What exactly do the numbers do the numbers have?
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