Getting a CT scan privately

[BigJonMcQuimm]

Hi

I desperately need a CT scan.

I am looking for somewhere in London, preferably West, where I can arrange a scan and get the results.

Does anyone know how to go about this? I have tried Bupa with no success

[tuffer]

If it's desperate why can you not get one on the NHS?

[Marf]

Any use?

http://www.privatehealth.co.uk/private-healthcare-...

[mdm123]

tuffer said:

If it's desperate why can you not get one on the NHS?

i'm just out of hospital due to an operation on my arm, i was admitted on a Sunday night and spend till thursday afternoon waiting for a ct scan. The consultant decided he had enough and scraped the ct scan so they operated on friday lunch time, he decide to xray me while i was having the operation instead. i was orginal told that i would have the scan on monday and the op on tuesday.

if i had know at the start what i know now i would have tried to get a privite scan. saved me from an extra few days in hospital.

sorry for the poor typing but typing single handed isn't much fun

[mechsympathy]

If they've operated why do you still need a CT?

FWIW a lot of MRI departments in the NHS run privately out of hours to raise funds, so it might be worth speaking to local NHS CT depts.

[Pints]

Contact HCA Hospitals. They have a CT machine and are London's premier private hospital group.

[BigJonMcQuimm]

Hi

Many thanks

MRI is not possible as I have a lot of metal inside.

The CT is needed as the NHS service I have received has been terrible. I need closure.

I only needed an operation as a result of a cock up made the first time round.

I slipped on a pillow on a wood floor, landing elbow first through a champagne glass. It was almost a comedy moment, like slipping on a banana skin - I fell hard enough to break my elbow twice whilst travelling through the glass.

The elbow has been opened up, the glass removed from under the ulna nerve, the nerve transposed, and the joint washed out.

My belief is that glass instead of washing out of my elbow, has been washed down to the bottom of the joint - causing a limitation of movment.

Hence the need for CT.

Ultrasound does not show the lead free glass.

[mechsympathy]

Ouch Elbows are buggers for stiffening up post op.

BigJonMcQuimm said:

MRI is not possible as I have a lot of metal inside.

The CT is needed as the NHS service I have received has been terrible. I need closure.

I mention the MRI simply as an example, try local NHS CT depts.