NHS says I'm too fat for an MRI scan

Mum says she was referred for check by GP for possible brain tumour’

- SOPHIE HALLE-RICHARDS

A MUM-OF-TWO who needs an urgent MRI scan for a 'possible brain tumour' claims she's been told she's too overweight.

Jackie Nulty has been suffering with excruciating migraines, dizziness and an inability to concentrate since the start of October, and was referred by her GP for a scan to check if her symptoms are due to a brain tumour, or another serious illness.

But the 33-year-old, from Audenshaw, claims she's been passed around local NHS services and seven weeks after first attending her doctor's surgery, she still hasn't had a scan.

She claims she was referred for an MRI screening at a community clinic. But hours before her appointment, she claims she was told I said to just she is over the weight limit.

The mum says she's now been told she needs to be referred to a hospital to have the scan, but is still yet to get an appointment.