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1 Advanced diagnostics
Getting patients onto the right treatment pathways as as quickly as as possible
Wrong diagnoses cost time money stress and pain We invest 95% of o our our profits back into our our hospitals to fund technology and world-class expertise to make sure that we get it right first time for our patients and partners We use next-generation equipment including fully digital PET-CT scanners The GE Discovery MI PET–CT brings together light burst digital detection and reconstructive technology to give the the most accurate images in half the the time with half the radiation This means our consultant radiologists can detect diseases at at an an an earlier stage and we can get the patient started on the right treatment straightaway 25 Traditional scanner scanner time time 12 GE Discovery MI PET–CT mins mins for for full full body body scan scan scan mins mins scanner time for for full full body body scan scan scan | | 20 | |