"Pontefract Hospital, no weekend CT scans"

I attended Pontefract hospital 8.30am

Sunday morning with a minor head injury. I was attended promptly, with care and skill by the triage nurse and the doctor

My injury was minor ,but

I needed a CT scan to ensure there was no bleed in the brain, only to be told that although the hospital has an expensive state of the art CT scanner, availability is limited at the weekends, It is not available at weekends until 1.00pm when off site staff can be called on. Therefore I was transferred to Pinderfield hospital by ambulance with 2 paramedics, needless to say at some cost. On arrival I was in a queue of 5 awaiting CT scans. My scan was normal and I did not require further treatment. All of this begs the question " Why doesn't the Trust make proper use of the facilities available to them" For an organisation to have a high capital cost item of equipment idle at one site and a backlog at another suggests mismanagement, and must be terribly demoralising for front line staff.