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Healthcare 21 Group has completed the acquisition of Xograph Healthcare. Founded in 1967 Xograph is said to be the largest independent medical imaging equipment supplier throughout the UK and Ireland serving NHS and HSE hospitals, private hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres. It provides medical imaging technology supported by a nationwide team of highly trained field-based […]

Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup has officially opened its new digital radiography and mammography rooms in Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust’s imaging department. For the busy symptomatic breast unit, the clinical team installed a Hologic 3Dimensions mammography system with 3D capability and biopsy functionality. Consultant radiologist Dr Jane Goligher said: “We wanted to work with […]

InHealth and Siemens Healthineers have introduced the UK’s first application of syngo Virtual Cockpit technology at Frimley Park Hospital, enabling the delivery of remote scanning assistance for the rapid transfer of specialist knowledge between MRI scanners. The syngo Virtual Cockpit is a software solution that is designed to assist the sharing of knowledge and management […]

Having recently installed an Elekta Versa HD linear accelerator, Singleton Hospital in Swansea is planning on using the C-RAD surface image guided radiation therapy (SIGRT system), supplied by Vertec Scientific, for patients receiving breast radiotherapy treatment when the machine goes live in spring. SIGRT is a technique that helps to deliver highly accurate radiotherapy treatments. […]

As a centre of clinical excellence and research, Ohio-based Cleveland Clinic is expanding its global footprint to London. Cleveland Clinic London’s first medical outpatient building in Portland Place will begin accepting patients in autumn and the 185-bed hospital in Grosvenor Place will open in spring 2021. London will have an institute similar to Cleveland Clinic’s […]

The UK’s first ViewRay MRIdian MR-linac has gone live at GenesisCare Oxford and delivered its first fully online-adaptive treatments to patients in December. Working non-stop for two months meant that the project team completed the fastest installation and commissioning of a MRIdian linac so far and met the go-live date. Senior radiographer Tejal Patel explained […]

Two radiographers are asking for donations of unwanted equipment in time for their next visit to a Ugandan hospital. Jane Cheveau from the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Teresa Dawkes from Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust have visited several hospitals in Uganda over the last 10 years as part of the […]

NHS Orkney’s radiology team has chosen MIS Healthcare to supply Samsung DR equipment for the radiology department at The Balfour, a new hospital completed last year. Radiology services manager Mike Beach said: “MIS and Samsung provided state-of-the-art DR systems for the new department, enabling reliability, high quality images and low doses for the population of […]