Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 109228
Magnetic Resonance Imagers
Tabled: 28 January 2026
Answered: 6 February 2026
Question
Lee Anderson
Reform UK — Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the (a) accessibility and (b) availability of functional MRI scans.
Answer
Karin SmythFunctional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans can be taken on standard clinical MRI machines. However, whilst functional MRI requires specialised software to detect blood flow changes, the blood-oxygen-level-dependent signal, and sometimes extra equip...
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