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The British Nuclear Medicine Society (BNMS) president, council members and scientific and education committee members would like to invite you to the BNMS Annual Spring Meeting on May 16-18 at the SEC, Glasgow. The Elders of the City of Glasgow were of course looking for an event that would compensate for the lull after COP26 […]

More than £1 million has been awarded to the Universities of Cumbria and Salford to support the education of new sonographers in north-west England through a virtual North West Ultrasound Academy. Funding has come from the newly created North West Imaging Academy, a government initiative set up to tackle shortages of trained sonographers regionally. It […]

Linnaeus-owned Davies Veterinary Specialists small animal referral practice has won Most Green Practice at the inaugural Veterinary Green Awards. Meanwhile, Ellie West, who is sustainability lead for Linnaeus nationally and an RCVS and EBVS European specialist in veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia at Davies, collected the Most Green Individual award. The awards ceremony was part of […]

Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend, has recently completed a GE Healthcare Signa Artist Lift upgrade on its existing GE Optima MR450w GEM system.  This enables the system to be upgraded to the latest Signa Artist XT with 128CH RF-receive channels and SignaWorks productivity platform to include AIR Recon DL . “We are very excited to […]

Rutherford Health has partnered with Bupa Health Clinics to open a number of Bupa Health Centres within its network of cancer clinics, creating a one-stop journey for patients, from diagnosis to treatment. The centres will give access to services such as private GP appointments, health assessments and physiotherapy under one roof within the Rutherford Cancer […]

Making children feel more at ease in medical facilities is the aim of Fujifilm’s ‘Little Lucy’ initiative, which launched across Europe to mark International Childhood Cancer Day in February. The project draws attention to the experiences of young patients in hospitals and clinics and is designed to make rooms more welcoming and reward their cooperation. […]

CHUMS, a mental health and emotional wellbeing service for children and young people based in Bedfordshire has received a boost to its funds of £1,500 from Davies Veterinary Specialists. The Linnaeus-owned small animal referral practice based near Hitchin chose CHUMS as its charity of the year for 2021. CHUMS supports several services in Bedfordshire and […]

While digital radiography is becoming the norm across the UK, Fujifilm says that most hospitals recognise that maintaining some CR is a sensible precaution to protect the operational functionality of a radiology department in the event of either localised or widespread failure of digital equipment. When the CR equipment at King’s College Hospital in London […]