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05/09/2002
Sick children to benefit from new CT scanner
A new CT scanner, which will greatly reduce waiting times for children awaiting scans at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, has been opened by Health, Social Services and Public Safety Minister Bairbre de Brún.
Funding for the scanner, which amounts to almost half a million pounds and includes the provision of additional radiology and nursing staff, has been provided by the Department.
Emphasising that the new CT scanner would bring real benefits to patients, the Minister said: “The scanner will make a significant difference to the services offered to children at the hospital. They will no longer have to be transferred to the main hospital for scans and so will benefit from a much more efficient service.
“It also means that the X-ray department will be able to treat more patients and so more patients will benefit.
“Our hospital services are undergoing great change. We are simply at the start of a long term, sustained programme to reverse the decline of recent years and to build a modern health and social care system which benefit us all.
“The opening of this CT scanner suite is another significant milestone in the development and implementation of the imaging programme I launched almost two years ago."
Ms de Brún also unveiled a plaque to mark the opening of the paediatric CT scanner which was funded by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety.
As part of the Imaging Modernisation programme, MRI scanners are being ordered for each Cancer Unit, along with the installation of an MRI scanner at the Belfast City Hospital and a replacement MRI scanner at the Royal Group of Hospitals.
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Funding for the scanner, which amounts to almost half a million pounds and includes the provision of additional radiology and nursing staff, has been provided by the Department.
Emphasising that the new CT scanner would bring real benefits to patients, the Minister said: “The scanner will make a significant difference to the services offered to children at the hospital. They will no longer have to be transferred to the main hospital for scans and so will benefit from a much more efficient service.
“It also means that the X-ray department will be able to treat more patients and so more patients will benefit.
“Our hospital services are undergoing great change. We are simply at the start of a long term, sustained programme to reverse the decline of recent years and to build a modern health and social care system which benefit us all.
“The opening of this CT scanner suite is another significant milestone in the development and implementation of the imaging programme I launched almost two years ago."
Ms de Brún also unveiled a plaque to mark the opening of the paediatric CT scanner which was funded by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety.
As part of the Imaging Modernisation programme, MRI scanners are being ordered for each Cancer Unit, along with the installation of an MRI scanner at the Belfast City Hospital and a replacement MRI scanner at the Royal Group of Hospitals.
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