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A Somatom go.UP from Siemens Healthineers will be installed on a mobile. Medical charity Cobalt has signed an agreement to bolster its cancer diagnostic capabilities.  A Somatom go.Up from Siemens Healthineers is being installed onto a Lamboo Medical mobile trailer as part of plans by the NHS in Manchester to introduce mobile lung cancer screening. […]

Radiographers Amy Campagne, Gill Roberts and Mariola Williams, healthcare assistant Lauren Miller, radiology manager Adele Maddison and Fujifilm account manager Richard Evans. Nuffield Health’s Grosvenor Hospital in Chester has found a mobile that does exactly what the imaging department needed with the acquisition of a Fujifilm FDR nano.  “We wanted a digital mobile to improve […]

Philips Allura Xper FD20 with Clarity. Royal Derby Hospital’s fluoroscopy department has had a modern interventional suite installed as part of a 10-year Althea managed service contract, which started in April 2015.  An 11-year-old Philips FD20 has been upgraded to a state-of-the-art Philips Allura Xper FD20 with Clarity, giving the main x-ray area an interventional […]

At Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, with a C-Qual Breastboard from IEL, are radiographer Katrina Statham, senior radiographer Megan Haworth, treatment superintendent radiographer Owen Morris, senior radiographer Scarlett Armstrong-Rand, clinical oncologist Dr Anne McCormack and senior radiographer Owen Pearce. A range of patient positioning and immobilisation devices for treatment of the thorax, abdomen and breast […]

The Davies green group: Lucy Witham, Nat Whitley, Clive Elwood Nick Bayston, Ellie West, Virginia Collins and Sharon Picardo. Davies Veterinary Specialists reports that it is the first veterinary practice to achieve accreditation from Investors in the Environment.  The Hertfordshire-based referral practice has been awarded Silver accreditation for making an excellent start to implementing an […]

Tim Farron MP with Professor Anwar Padhani from Paul Strickland Scanner Centre in the MRI scanner control room. A £1.5 million charity-funded MRI scanner unit at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre was officially opened by Tim Farron MP, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Radiotherapy, during a special event in September. The MRI unit was […]

Senior radiographers Zoe Targett, Nia Hopson, Heather Carter and Amy Ladd, consultant interventional radiologist Dr David Roberts, superintendent radiographer Jayne Slee, consultant interventional radiologist Dr Carl Sullivan, Philips UKI service delivery manager Aiden Jones, consultant interventional radiologist Dr Tony Davies, with Philips UKI district general manager, SW and Wales, Lee Moger, image guided therapy business […]

Senior therapy radiographer Trina Herbert, lead research radiographer Dr Helen McNair and MR-linac radiographer Gillian Smith. The Royal Marsden and The Institute of Cancer Research, London, have delivered the first treatment in the UK using a MR-linac system.  The patient received radiotherapy treatment as part of the PRISM clinical trial, which is the first of […]