A process aimed at guaranteeing direct access for outpatients with a request for radiography of skeletal segments with priority B (short 10 days) will start in ASL 1 from 1 July, on an experimental level in the Imperia Health District, as already happens for requests for chest, rib and abdominal x-rays.
The type of management should help reduce the number of patients accessing the Imperia ER for minor traumas, crowding it and altering the operational flow dedicated to patients with more serious pathologies. This initiative by Asl1 goes in the direction of reducing waiting lists, especially in the summer period which sees a greater influx of patients in the province’s ERs, also due to the summer holidays. “The will of ASL 1 – explains DSS Dr. Fabrizio Polverini – is to provide a better service to users as well as ensuring compliance with waiting times.”
The words of the Social Health Director are echoed by those of Dr. Roberto Carlo Parodi Director of the General Radiodiagnostics Department of the Levant: “We will be able to carry out direct access, without reservation, any type of RX with priority B from Monday to Friday (9am-1pm). This guarantees rapid access to radiological diagnostics for all those patients who may have been victims of minor traumas and/or pain symptoms that are not seriously disabling and who, therefore, do not require immediate access to the emergency room. The reporting of the images will take place in a short time without having to return the patients to collect the exam”.
