Both Counties Manukau and Auckland DHBs have been far away from hitting targets when it comes to patients getting MRIs within six weeks. In January only 24 per cent of MRIs were completed in six weeks - an 8.5 per cent drop since December, and the agenda showed some patients were waiting up to nine months to be seen. Delays were particularly bad for cardiac MRI patients - with only 27.2 per cent seen within six weeks. Of those, 126 adult non-cardiac patients and 15 paediatric (child) patients were waiting longer than 42 days. Demand for MRIs had grown "significantly" over the past couple of years, but by prioritising acute (urgent or emergency) patients they had "successfully reduced waiting times", they said.

Source: Stuff March 26, 2019 04:30 UTC