HC Deb 30 April 1980 vol 983 cc535-6W
Mr. Peter Robinson

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the number and type of scanners now used in hospitals, the diseases for which they are used to assist diagnosis and the hospitals in which they are located.

Mr. Alison

There are three different types of scanners used in hospitals in Northern Ireland. Ultrasound scanners, which are used for maternity patients and now increasingly for other patients, are in fairly general use in the main hospitals. Radioisotope scanners which are used for a whole range of diagnostic functions, are provided in the following hospitalsRoyal Victoria hospital, Belfast Belfast City hospital Belvoir Park hospital, Belfast Altnagelvin hospital, Londonderry Waveney hospital, Ballymena Craigavon area hospital

There is only one whole-body scanner, which utilises X-rays, and this is located in the Royal Victoria hospital, Belfast. It is used particularly in the case of head

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