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Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey has been allocated one of 15 specially- commissioned Canon Medical Systems relocatable CT units by NHS England under its COVID-19 recovery plan. It will help the trust catch up on delayed outpatient CT scans from the spring and summer lockdown period and boost imaging capacity […]

Stephen Glasgow has joined medical equipment company Future Medical in the role of European ultrasound specialist due to the increasing demand for new and used ultrasound equipment. He has more than 11 years’ experience in the healthcare industry. Glasgow’s medical background began when he joined Asteral in 2009 where he set up the equipment remarketing […]

Royal Philips has announced the next generation of its Azurion image-guided therapy platform. The company says it marks a step forward in optimising clinical and operational laboratory performance and expanding the role of image-guided interventions in treatment. Since its introduction three years ago the platform has already been used in well over two million procedures […]

Cork University Hospital (CUH) has installed the first Artis icono angiography system from Siemens Healthineers in Great Britain and Ireland during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Aided by digitised healthcare applications and remote support platforms, the state-of-the-art technology provides high image quality, bolstering stroke and neuroradiology procedures across Ireland. As one of two neuroradiology […]

Cancer patients at The Royal Marsden in Sutton are now able to benefit from the latest radiotherapy technology following the arrival of a CyberKnife system this summer, funded by The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. The Accuray CyberKnife system is a 3D image-guided intensity modulated radiation therapy (IG-IMRT) system that includes treatment planning, imaging and delivery. […]

Since 2018, Fujifilm has installed four Visionary Suite room solutions and five mobile units at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. The installation of the fifth digital imaging room at the hospital this year was undertaken in the midst of lockdown. Despite the challenges posed for both organisations, Fujifilm and Tameside General Hospital […]

Royal Philips has released an ultrasound solution for paediatric assessment, the latest addition for its Epiq Elite ultrasound system. The new solution is said to provide clinicians with exceptionally detailed images and the performance they need to make a definitive diagnosis for paediatric patients, reducing the need for additional diagnostic imaging steps, such as x-ray. […]

An image of a radiographer after a 12-hour night shift at William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, has been chosen as one of 100 photographs representing the UK during lockdown. East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust superintendent radiographer Kyle Tallett took the picture of his colleague Allen Matembo just before the handover between shifts, and it […]