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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Ella Pickover

Radiographers sound alarm over high street baby scans

Concerns have been raised about the number of clinics providing baby scans without a trained sonographer (Alamy/PA) -

Leading radiographers have raised serious concerns about “unsafe” high street clinics offering baby scans without a trained specialist after reports of babies being misdiagnosed as having died and medical emergencies being missed.

The Society of Radiographers said there has been a proliferation of high street clinics offering pregnancy scans.

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