article_snippet: Ordering the correct X-ray, then detecting an abnormality on the image takes skill and experience.
article_snippet: This is why many, but not all, hospitals have introduced a safety net: all X-rays should be reviewed by a specialist — either a radiologist (a clinician specialising in interpreting scan images) or a specially trained radiographer, whose main job is taking X-rays.
article_snippet: Meanwhile, a survey of a quarter of NHS radiology departments last year revealed a survey of a quarter of NHS radiology departments had taken more than 30 days before over 80,000 X-rays were reviewed by a radiologist.
article_snippet: This suggests that nationally about 300,000 patients are waiting more than a month for 300,000 patients X-rays to be analysed,’ says Dr Giles Maskell, president of the Royal College of Radiologists.
article_snippet: ‘We should be working towards a system where every patient has every patient or every patient X-ray reviewed before being discharged from A&E.
highlights_snippet: Some hospitals have introduced a safety net in which all X-rays are reviewed by a specialist .