Thousands of Diagnostic Tests Are Rejected in Andalusia without the Patient or Family Doctor Knowing
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Thousands of Diagnostic Tests Are Rejected in Andalusia without the Patient or Family Doctor Knowing
The Autonomous Government limits ultrasounds and resonances to reduce the large backlog of its waiting lists. A single hospital in Huelva accumulates nearly 40,000 outstanding images
In at least four Andalusian provinces—Seville, Huelva, Almería, and Córdoba—thousands of diagnostic tests requiring ultrasounds, MRIs, and CT scans are being rejected by the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) without any notification to patients or healthcare professionals. This information was released by the Medical Union, which highlights a situation that once again underscores the lack of information within the public healthcare system of this …
Thousands of diagnostic tests are being rejected in Andalusia without the patients or their family doctors knowing it. Ultrasounds, magnetic resonance imaging or CT scans requested from Primary Care are blocked by the Diraya healthcare computer system, in an attempt by the Autonomous Government to reduce waiting lists, which reach overflowing numbers: only the Juan Ramón Jiménez Hospital in Huelva accumulates nearly 40,000 outstanding tests, acc…
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