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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ellie Iorizzo

Rod Stewart ‘can’t get any response’ after offering to pay for NHS hospital scans

Sir Rod Stewart said he supports the striking NHS staff and wants to pay for more MRI scans across the country to help cut waiting lists, but described it as “banging your head against a brick wall”.

In February, the singer-songwriter appeared at a mobile MRI scanning unit outside his local hospital Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex and paid for a day of scans.

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