{"id":308,"date":"2026-02-03T10:28:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/?p=308"},"modified":"2026-02-03T11:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:54:19","slug":"full-body-scans-add-to-overstretched-nhs-workload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/full-body-scans-add-to-overstretched-nhs-workload\/","title":{"rendered":"Full-body scans add to &#8216;overstretched NHS workload&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) says the growth of the commercial scanning market is adding \u2018risk and workload onto an already stretched system\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK co-chair Dr Matt Kneale spoke about his concerns about full-body MRI or CT scans in an article in Medscape News UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Kneale said: \u201cThese services are often marketed as reassurance or early detection, but for most asymptomatic individuals there is no good evidence that whole-body MRI or CT screening improves outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overstretched NHS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat is clear is that it generates large numbers of incidental findings that have uncertain clinical meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the article in full at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/when-full-body-scans-trigger-medical-cascade-2026a10002ue?form=fpf\">Medscape News UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are a non-profit campaigning and lobbying organisation led by frontline doctors, for frontline doctors. We are volunteers and our collective aim is to give frontline workers a voice to be heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please support our work by contributing to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk\">our crowd funder<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) says the growth of the commercial scanning market is adding \u2018risk and workload onto an already stretched system\u2019. DAUK co-chair&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-in-the-media","tag-dr-matt-kneale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}