Question follow-through · 68539
Tomography
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many MRI scans have to be repeated because of errors made in the initial scan each year; and what the cost to the NHS is of each MRI scan performed.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many MRI scans have to be repeated because of errors made in the initial scan each year; and what the cost to the NHS is of each MRI scan performed.
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2025
Answer published
Data on the number of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans that have had to be repeated due to errors made in the initial scan is not held centrally. The following table shows the cost of MRI scans in the National Health Service broken down by Healthcar...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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