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Musgrove Park Hospital has chosen a custom-made Cardiff Chair for its busy breast care centre. Part of the Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, the centre provides a diagnostic and therapeutic service, breast surgery and a Breast Cancer Family History Service. The bright pink Cardiff Chair from Knight Imaging was chosen by the breast screening […]

Fujifilm is supporting the launch of the NHS Parliamentary Awards 2020 to give national recognition to staff who go above and beyond the call of duty. The awards were created to celebrate NHS staff, carers and volunteers for their hard work, innovative ideas and unwavering efforts to put patients first. Members of Parliament are now […]

Currently two factors are helping to determine diagnostic workflow in mammography, says ScreenPoint Medical. One is the uncertainty on working practice across the healthcare sector by the COVID-19 situation and the other is UK workforce shortage in clinical radiology, which is increasing year-on-year according to the latest annual census from The Royal College of Radiologists. […]

Held at the Mercure Hotel in Manchester and attracting more than 40 delegates, Philips’ CT study day received positive feedback, with a request for it to become a regular event. The CPD-accredited meeting was aimed at radiologists, radiographers and physicists, covering a number of topics and providing an opportunity for delegates to share experiences with […]

An advanced research centre aimed at developing innovations that will increase physical activity and improve population health has been officially opened by Sheffield Hallam University. The Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) is supported by several partners, including Canon Medical Systems, to provide cutting-edge equipment and technology, expertise and R&D opportunities. Located at Sheffield Olympic Legacy […]

Professor of radiography at the University of Salford Peter Hogg and senior lecturer at the University of Cumbria Ken Holmes are leading an international effort to develop e-learning resources for radiographers caring for patients with COVID-19. The project is creating a free online information and support system, with a particular focus on training and advice […]

The BioPince Ultra biopsy instrument offers more tissue volume with a reduced risk of crush artefact and tissue fragmentation. According to Argon Medical (formerly Mana-Tech) the original BioPince is the choice of full-core biopsy instrument in many radiology departments across the UK. “So why isn’t it being used widely by breast radiologists? There was no […]

MIS Healthcare’s premium three-in-one mammography system, the IMS Giotto Class, has been developed at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s breast screening service over the last 12 months, with the dedicated support of the trust’s clinical breast radiology team. Designed with leading-edge technologies for superior clinical results while using low dose, the IMS Giotto Class was […]