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The Sheffield Sharks basketball club RESPECT community outreach programme, supported by Canon Medical Systems UK, has reached a positive conclusion to its 2018/19 school initiative. The scheme has positively impacted more than 600 year five and six primary school children led by British basketball league professionals. A finale of 160 primary school children from 13 […]

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, Harlow, is operating without a backlog of radiology reporting cases following the installation of Agfa’s Enterprise Imaging (EI) solution and a 45 per cent increase in staff productivity. The imaging platform, which offers intuitive use, embedded clinical tools and a powerful workflow engine, has meant that staff can complete […]

The consultant-led hand unit at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Tooting, takes a patient-centred and multidisciplinary approach to helping people manage their hand and wrist problems. Six plastic surgeon hand consultants and two orthopaedic hand consultants are supported by a nursing team including an advanced nurse practitioner, two nurse practitioners and three nurse […]

Northern Care Alliance NHS Group (NCA) has opened its new Radiography Academy, a centre of excellence for research, learning and mentoring in the field of radiology. Based at Rochdale Infirmary, the academy was unveiled by NCA chief executive Raj Jain and Bury and Rochdale Care Organisation chief officer Steve Taylor at the beginning of November. […]

West Midlands-based Raybloc is celebrating 20 years in the business of manufacturing x-ray shielding. The past two decades have seen managing director Sean Haydon and team designing and developing quality products. All of the bespoke x-ray shielding designs are manufactured in-house, from specialised x-ray warning lights that are set flush, to lead-lined x-ray protective doors. […]

The impact of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) assessment on patients admitted to the short stay geriatric unit at Cimiez Hospital has been assessed as part of the GERICARE clinical research programme. Dr Nicolas Azulay reports that the results were positive. A general medicine doctor specialising in scheduled and emergency ultrasound examinations at the University Hospitals of […]

Leicester General Hospital has received a C-arm imaging table from Wolverson X-ray to replace an old table that had served the hospital well for many years. Wolverson arranged a loan of its demonstration table to bridge the period between ordering and delivery. The new Stille Medstone table is designed to give the maximum unobstructed imaging […]

Philips UKI reports continued sales success for its image-guided therapy (IGT) range, with products including mobile C-arms, cardiac and vascular interventional systems, as well as a wide range of interventional tools. As a result, the company is investing in the support of its installed base, including the recruitment of additional engineers. A long term goal […]