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. 2021 Mar 25;107(24):1974–1979. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2020-318667

Table 1.

Results of the BSCMR 2019 survey

Country/Region Population (million) Number of CMR scans in 2018 Number of CMR scans per million population 2018 Number of CMR scans in 2017 Number of CMR scans per million population 2017 Number of CMR units Number of CMR units per million population Number of CMR scanners Number of CMR scanners per million population Number of CMR consultants Number of CMR consultants per million population Median outpatient waiting time (days)
England
East of England 6.3 8147 1293 6749 1071 6 1.0 8 1.3 33 5.2 33
London 9.2 39 152 4256 33 241 3613 11 1.2 27 2.9 69 7.5 25
Midlands 10.7 17 025 1591 15 073 1409 15 1.4 27 2.5 56 5.2 42
North East and Yorkshire 8.4 12 285 1463 10 313 1228 10 1.2 24 2.9 45 5.4 33
Northwest 7.4 12 562 1698 10 936 1478 9 1.2 17 2.3 37 5.0 42
Southeast 9.1 8968 985 8177 899 12 1.3 21 2.3 36 4.0 41
Southwest 6.0 8641 1440 8334 1389 8 1.3 15 2.5 28 4.7 44
England total 56.0 106 780 1907 92 823 1658 71 1.3 139 2.5 304 5.4 40
Northern Ireland 1.9 2450 1302 2300 1222 1 0.5 4 2.1 10 5.3 180
Scotland 5.4 4495 827 4128 759 6 1.1 17 3.1 23 4.2 55
Wales 3.1 1242 396 1135 362 4 1.3 6 1.9 14 4.5 50
UK total 66.4 114 967 1731 100 386 1511 82 1.2 166 2.5 351 5.3 41

BSCMR, British Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.