A HOSPITAL is to carry out MRI scans in its CAR PARK in a desperate bid to wade through a backlog of 1,040 patients.
The Princess Royal University Hospital in Farnborough, Kent, came up with the drastic solution after being named as the second-worst hospital in England for meeting national targets of seeing patients within six weeks.
Boss Mike Marchment said: “We can’t squeeze more in so we have to go outside.” But patient Cindy Barnes, 32, raged: “It’s like a Third World health service. It’s a disgrace.”
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