A HOSPITAL has made a video to prepare patients for the daunting process of going for a scan.
The news comes days after the Department of Health obtained an injunction to ban the sale of a controversial video, Everyday Operations, which showed surgery taking place.
But the Royal Preston has put together its film purely for the benefit of their patients.
The hospital has produced the video for people who are claustrophobic and have to undergo a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan.
Senior radiographer Jane Kilkenny, from the neuro X-ray department, made the film as part of her MSc at Lancaster University.
She said: "We realised a lot of patients were not being screened due to claustrophobia so we decided to help them know what to expect."
The 10 minute tape explains every stage of the scanning process, which involves lying inside a tube within a magnetic field 10,000 times the force of gravity.
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