A former nurse who waited three months for MRI results says it is 'totally unacceptable'.
Wendy Hayeck spent much of her career as a nurse within the NHS in Shropshire as a midwifeA former nurse said she had been forced to wait 12 weeks for MRI scan results following treatment for a brain tumour.Wendy Hayeck had surgery in 2020 to remove a grade three tumour and needs quarterly scans as 5% of it remains.Mrs Hayeck, 53, said waiting times had got progressively worse since she started having regular scans at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
Mrs Hayeck worked as a midwife and also within clinical cancer trials within the NHS in Shropshire, before retiring due to ill health following her diagnosis and associated memory loss. Only 12% of brain tumour patients survive beyond five years of their diagnosis, according to the charityMrs Hayeck has raised her concerns with the Care Quality Commission, her local MP, patient groups and hospital bosses.
Following her operation at the start of the first national lockdown, Mrs Hayeck used social media to contact others who were undergoing brain tumour treatment.The 46-year-old has also endured long waits for results that are now more important than ever after new "spots" were detected in 2021. Dr Halliday, a consultant paediatric radiologist in the Midlands, said she had seen at first-hand a sharp rise in demand in recent years.
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