FOI 25-0281 LD – Correspondence Regarding MRI Services At Sandringham Hospital

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This FOI release contains correspondence from Zoe Daniel MP (Independent Member for Goldstein) to Health Minister Mark Butler dated 22 December 2023, requesting reconsideration of MRI licensing policy for Sandringham Hospital, part of Alfred Health in Victoria. Daniel argues that Alfred Health, which serves 770,000+ people and operates three integrated hospital campuses providing specialist services (transplantation, trauma, burns, neurology, cardiac, cancer), is under-provisioned with MRI licences compared to similar major health services (Royal Melbourne Hospital has three, Monash Health has four, St Vincent's has two). She attributes unintended consequences to the November 2022 removal of MRI licence requirements in regional and rural areas, noting licence relocations from rural to metropolitan private providers (citing Bendigo to Imaging @ Olympic Park). Daniel contends a second full MRI licence would improve diagnostic access and support high-volume complex