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 ====== Out of Hours MRI ======
-Out of hours MRI is largely reserved for MRI ? CES, and is very variable between sites, with Plymouth and Truro offering overnight scanning, and Truro and Torbay having more limited service. Detailed site by site guides below:
+Out of hours MRI is largely reserved for MRI ? CES, and is very variable between sites, with Plymouth and Exeter offering overnight scanning, and Truro and Torbay having more limited service. Detailed site by site guides below:
 ===== Plymouth =====
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 ==== Other Presentations ====
-All other neurological presentations where a MRI is requested to be performed overnight need to be discussed with the neuroradiology consultant on call. Check with the clinical team that it is required for overnight, and is going to impact management overnight. Note that radiotherapy is not available overnight, so ? metastatic cord compression imaging is not felt indicated overnight.
+All other neurological presentations where a MRI is requested to be performed overnight need to be discussed with the neuroradiology consultant on call. Check with the clinical team that it is required for overnight, and is going to impact management overnight. Ideally the patient should have been seen by the Neurosurgical team, and you are encouraged to inform the clinicians that the request should be from the Neurosurgical consultant to the on-call Neuroradiologist. Note that radiotherapy is not available overnight, so ? metastatic cord compression imaging is not felt indicated overnight.
 ==== Arranging Imaging ====
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 [[https://nhs.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/sites/msteams_e1797f/Shared%20Documents/General/PROCuments/Exeter/Process%20for%20on%20call%20MR%20requests%20for%20cord-cauda%20equina%20compression.docx?d=w97763303a38c4b75a264a42cc69bb0fa&csf=1&web=1&e=zeGLf6|Exeter On-call MRI protocol]]
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+===== Torbay =====
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+Out of hours MRI in Torbay is only offered for suspected CES, and is not available 24 hours a day.
+Referrals made prior to 2200 that are accepted but the PROC registrar should have vetting completed and MRI contra-indications checked, and then promptly called through to the MRI radiographer on-call via switchboard.
+Referrals accepted after 2200 will be scanned the following day at 0800 - in order to arrange this, the scan should be vetted, then the referrer should be instructed to complete the safety questionnaire and called the MRI answer phone on 01803 655654. The referrer should arrange for the patient to come to MRI for 0800 the following morning, but cannot be left unattended in the MRI department.
+[[https://nhs.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/sites/msteams_e1797f/Shared%20Documents/General/PROCuments/Torbay/Torbay%20overnight%20MRI%20process%20for%20PROC.docx?d=wa7ef2b2717bf44ae981f90a56d05d309&csf=1&web=1&e=r7Zvzd|Out of hours MRI for corda equina at Torbay]]
+[[https://nhs.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/sites/msteams_e1797f/Shared%20Documents/General/PROCuments/Torbay/Torbay%20overnight%20MRI%20process%20for%20PROC.docx?d=wa7ef2b2717bf44ae981f90a56d05d309&csf=1&web=1&e=6U3eXF|Summary of Torbay overnight MRI process for PROC]]
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+===== Barnstaple =====
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+Barnstaple does not offer out of hours MRI.
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 ===== Useful Links =====