CAMRT-ATL was interviewed by CBC Information Morning in Nova Scotia about increasing wait times for screening mammography in the province. Click on the link as we cover topics such as:
- How staffing appropriately is key to access when demand expands
- How retention incentives seen for other professions in Nova Scotia need to translate to Medical Radiation Technology
- Increasing education seats help, but only if graduates stay to work
- The emotional turmoil on MRTs when they live and work with these long wait times and the impact on their patients
- How these shortages are being felt in all areas of Medical Radiation Technology
- How diagnosis is one piece of the puzzle in breast cancer but so is access to Radiation Therapy, which means the government needs to fund a Radiation Therapy Education program.
