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The breast centre at Great Western Hospital in Swindon offers a symptomatic service plus breast screening as part of the Wiltshire breast screening service. With two mobile and two static systems to be replaced, the team chose Hologic 3Dimensions mammography system for all four, with Hologic 3D Mammography on two systems. Breast centre manager Suzie […]

Dewsbury and District Hospital in Yorkshire has selected the Carestream DRX Evolution Plus for its latest digital x-ray room. Staff were attracted by the auto-positioning and faster processing times to increase throughput and efficiency without detriment to image quality. The hospital offers a range of medical, rehabilitation and surgical services and staff need continuous access […]

Royal Bournemouth Hospital has officially unveiled its new Esaote extremity MRI scanner, the O-scan Premium, after a successful year-long appeal. Bournemouth Hospital Charity asked the community to help raise money for the O-scan to allow the trust to reduce waiting times and provide a more economical, comfortable treatment path for patients. Superintendent radiographer CT and […]

Vertec Scientific is to distribute Cyrpa laser products in the UK. Established in 2010, Cyrpa is a wholly-owned subsidiary of C-RAD AB. Based in Brussels and Roissy, the company develops non-invasive lasers used for patient positioning in radiotherapy. The laser systems are currently distributed around the world and more than 400 have been installed in […]

North Devon District Hospital has installed an Aplio i600 diagnostic ultrasound system to support the expansion of imaging service capacity and bolster clinical confidence. It will be situated in a new multi-use room and used predominantly for breast imaging procedures. Featuring superb microvascular imaging, the Aplio i600 from Canon Medical Systems will be able to […]

One of the UK’s longest serving radiographers has celebrated her 50th work anniversary. Bozenna Wereszczynska, 71, began working as a radiographer at Central Middlesex Hospital in 1969, the year of Woodstock, the Vietnam War and Neil Armstrong walking on the Moon. She plumped for radiography after a visiting radiographer gave a talk at her convent […]

A Philips Ingenuity 128 CT scanner has been removed from an imaging centre in St Pölten, Austria by Future Medical Equipment. Following a site survey the company took on the de-installation and removal of the CT while MEDSER Medical Services of Germany arranged the logistics of the project such as organising the site survey and […]

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has added two high performance DR 600 x-ray rooms. With the contract signed in September 2018, the first room went live in December and has already increased patient throughput significantly in the hospital. The trust already has several Agfa digital radiography solutions. “Our new DR 600 has enhanced the x-ray […]