Patients are waiting more than two weeks longer than they did last year for important kidney and bladder scans at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, figures show.

The latest NHS England data shows that 115 people were referred for an ultrasound on their kidney or bladder at the trust in June.

On average, those patients had to wait 15 days, from the date of the request to the scan.

This is up from an average zero day wait in June 2017.

Ultrasound scans are used to detect kidney and bladder cancer, among other illnesses.

Across England, waiting times increased for other ultrasounds, MRI scans on the brain and CT scans on the chest.

Dr Caroline Rubin, vice president for clinical radiology at the Royal College of Radiologists, said trusts were short staffed and under-equipped.