Queen Victoria Hospital plans CT service development around new scanner

Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, has received a Philips Ingenuity Elite with IMR CT scanner. The small, specialist NHS hospital provides reconstructive surgery, burns care and rehabilitation services for people across the south of England. The hospital had outsourced its CT requirements to local NHS and private providers, but wanted to develop an in-house CT service. The acquisition of the Philips scanner provides the radiology department with the opportunity to develop its own service.

CT superintendent radiographer Helen Joy said: “The new scanner has really improved the patient experience and smoothes out their pathway; it will hopefully prevent backlogs as well. We have had lots of really good feedback from patients; they are particularly happy with the short waiting times for their appointments and the fact that in some cases they don’t need to travel a long way any more.”

The Philips Ingenuity family offers advances such as the iDose4 Premium Package and iPatient, which puts the user in control of innovative workflow solutions. NanoPanel Elite tile-detector technology has been re-engineered for low noise, high fidelity imaging and, with the IMR option, the scanner offers low contrast resolution and virtually noise-free image quality. In addition, the upgradeable Ingenuity family allows the flexibility to grow with the user.

Picture: Standing are consultant radiologist Dr Ian Francis, Philips UKI project manager Derren Whitworth and imaging systems account manager Barry Heathcote, former radiology services manager Sheila Black, chair of the League of Friends StJohn Brown, chief executive Steve Jenkins, non-executive director Gary Needle (in front) and Linda Skinner of the League of Friends. Seated are CT superintendent radiographer Helen Joy and Philips UKI CT business marketing manager Hannah Timbrell.

Published on page 14 of the July 2019 issue of RAD Magazine.