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Dr Jane Phillips-Hughes with Günter Dombrowe at the presentation of his Distinguished Service Medal. The British Institute of Radiology has award its Distinguished Service Medal to Günter Dombrowe, who stepped down as president of Radiology and Oncology Congresses in October and is a fellow and past president of the BIR. President of the BIR Dr […]

James Cook University Hospital, part of the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is a leading centre for radiotherapy treatment and a pioneer in stereotactic ablative radiotherapy.  It treats more than 40,000 patients every year.  The trust has acquired seven SaBella Flex boards made by CDR Systems and supplied by Vertec Scientific. Pictured following training […]

Canon Medical’s Aquilion One at the Aon Training Complex Medical Centre, with players Juan Mata, Scott McTominay and Marcus Rashford. Manchester United Football Club has renewed its multi-year agreement with Canon Medical Systems Europe as its official partner. Signed six years ago the agreement included the installation of top-of-the-range imaging modalities including CT, MRI and […]

Fujifilm UK senior account manager John Casson, trainee assistant practitioner Mark Vallance, reporting radiographer Rob Johnson, medical imaging directorate manager Liz Elfleet, student radiographer Madina Yaftaly and radiographer Alex Lea. In 2016, Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust underwent a substantial departmental overhaul that resulted in improved patient experience, workflow efficiencies, cost savings and higher staff […]

Team Causeway celebrating World Radiography Day 2018. Staff at Causeway Hospital, part of Northern Health and Social Care Trust, celebrated World Radiography Day on November 8, 2018. Ultrasonographer Matthew Suddaby said: “As a department we made cakes, designed a quiz for children to find the Society of Radiographers’ owls in the department and we dressed […]

Senior radiographer Tom Blackman. Wye Valley NHS Trust has launched its x-ray services transformation programme as part of an 11-year radiology partnership with Royal Philips.   The trust went live with the Philips managed service agreement in April, and since then a number of new systems have been delivered to trust sites, including a new digital […]

Medica Group staff supported the IDoR social media ‘show your love for radiology’ campaign. In support of this year’s International Day of Radiology, Medica Group head office staff held a fund-raiser with all proceeds going to the British Heart Foundation and Cardiac Risk in the Young. Head of marketing Paul Cornell said: “We are proud […]

BIR president Dr Jane Phillips-Hughes, Dr Sotirios Bisdas and Siemens Healthineers regional sales manager Carl Smith. Dr Sotirios Bisdas from University College Hospital London (UCL) has been presented with a BIR/Siemens Healthineers research bursary to test the effects of chemoradiation on the brain in a research project titled ‘Functional and structural connectivity substrates of cognition […]