MRI is an area that supports nearly all care groups within the hospital and the local healthcare economy. The additional scanner will influence and contribute to the care and management of a vast number of patients from the modest GP direct access to the highly efficient complex cancer pathways.

An additional modern and technically advanced MRI scanner will give massive benefits to all patients, including:

• RSH will be able to offer a cardiac MRI service
• Crohns patients will benefit from a full MRI small bowel imaging service. MRI is the gold standard for this complex clinical condition and greatly effects treatment. 
• All patients will get the fantastic diagnostic image quality expected from a modern imaging department – MRI is a rapidly advancing technology at the forefront of radiology’s capabilities. 
• New scanners have wider, lighter, airier bores that are also shorter making them feel less like ‘going into a tunnel’, especially important to young, claustrophobic, or larger patients