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The Primary Care based Ultrasound Service near Lakeside is now fully operational.
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The Lakeside Medical Ultrasound service is located at the site of Purfleet Care Centre, Tank Hill Road, 4 days a week, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
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The Ultrasound takes place one late evening (hours subject to changed) from 5.45pm till 8pm, to give access to the patients who get home late from work.
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The service also takes place at Mayflower Hospital, Billericay every Saturday 8am to 1pm.
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Presently we have 6 Consultant Radiologists and we will be recruiting a Seventh Consultant Radiologist shortly.
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The scanning system will work on a mini picture archive system to transmit images to local hospitals, this project should be completed late 2014.
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Regular teaching meetings take place once a month.
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Booking an appointment can either be done by Choose & Book or via a faxed referral.
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There is less than a 2 week waiting time.
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All reports are typed and faxed within 72 hours.
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All Urgent referrals are seen within 24 hours.
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DVT scanning & AAA scanning also takes place.
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Look our for our events for the CDD/teaching dates.
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The Lakeside Medical Diagnostic Ultrasound service information leaflet is available on request.
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Easy access for patients is crucial. There will be expansion of this service South West Essex wide.
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Our service accepts all NHS patients.
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