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Sue Barlow is pictured with Horace the QC spine phantom. Vertec Scientific’s applications specialist Sue Barlow has been honoured with the title of Visiting Fellow in the Management of Osteoporosis by the University of Derby. Vice chancellor professor Kathryn Mitchell commented: “I am very pleased that you will be associated with colleagues in the College […]

The trailer for University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust. A new mobile breast screening trailer has now been delivered to University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust as part of its Althea managed service contract. Supplied by Lynton Trailers, the unit was first delivered to Queen’s Hospital in Burton upon […]

New business Future Medical Equipment reports that it has had a busy few months with the removal of a Siemens Healthineers Magnetom Area MRI scanner and a six and a half tonne Magnetom Skyra MRI scanner in July. Both MRIs were removed from Europe, brought to the Future Medical headquarters to be filled with helium, […]

Acting radiology manager Jane MacDonald, Philips UKI account manager Louise Jones, radiographer Karen Macleod and clinical support worker, radiology, Beckee Thornton. Western Isles Hospital in Stornoway has received a BV Pulsera C-arm image intensifier from Philips UKI.  The system replaced existing Philips C-arm equipment and comes with an array of features.  It will be used […]

Survey respondents indicated that innovation in medical imaging and the emergence of AI are exciting opportunities in radiology.  Credit: Dr Jon Bell, Consultant Interventional Radiologist at The Christie Hospital. The pace of innovation in medical imaging and the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) as an enabler for improving radiological diagnosis and reporting are the most […]

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust was announced the winner of the Health Service Journal’s Patient Safety Team of the Year Award at the annual Patient Safety Congress in Manchester.  The award is given in recognition of an organisation that has made outstanding improvements to patient safety. Nine other organisations were shortlisted for the […]

Account manager for MIS Healthcare Tony Rogers, principal operational radiographer David Hosking, senior radiographers Charlotte Chester and Jodie Hall, radiographer team lead Irena Glover and service manager for Althea Steve Scott. As part of a recent upgrade of the emergency department at Peterborough City Hospital, part of North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, the team […]

Professor of radiography and imaging practice research and BIR vice president (education) Maryann Hardy, imaging department innovation acceleration programme manager Katherine Day, lead advanced reporting radiographer practitioner Victoria Ballard and senior account manager IEL Phil Neale. A team from the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has been presented with the BIR/IEL Make it […]