Symptomatic (Diagnostic) Breast Imaging Services
Diagnostic Breast Imaging Services (as it is known in the rest of the world)
The following are issued as guidance on the manpower and workload for symptomatic breast imaging services:
|
Recommended |
Mean |
Maximum |
Minimum |
Median |
S D |
Mode |
1 New Patient Clinic for Population Number |
2500 |
2977 |
7800 |
833 |
2550 |
1409 |
2000 |
No of Radiologist Sessions for Each Clinic (New+Old) |
1 |
0.95 |
5.0 |
0.13 |
0.75 |
0.69 |
1.0 |
No of Radiologist Sessions per week per Cancer Detected |
0.025 |
0.02 |
0.08 |
0.01 |
0.02 |
0.01 |
0.02 |
No of New Patients per New Clinic |
25 |
26.4 |
100 |
6 |
22.6 |
16.8 |
20 |
No of Radiographers per Radiologist 98/99 |
- |
2.7 |
7.5 |
0.5 |
2.5 |
1.4 |
3.0 |
No of Radiographer Sessions per Radiologist Session (exc any extended role) |
2.0 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
No of Nurse/RDA/Helper Sessions per Radiologist Session (exc any extended role) |
1.0 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
No of Clerical Sessions per Radiologist Session |
2.0 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Mammogram (only) patients per Radiologist Session |
25 |
25 |
66 |
5 |
20 |
15.4 |
15 |
Ultrasound (only) patients per Radiologist Session |
15 |
14.5 |
25 |
4 |
15 |
16.5 |
15 |
Mixed imaging (Mammo+US+FNA/Core) patients per Radiologist Session |
12 |
16 |
50 |
3 |
15 |
7.3 |
20 |