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IEL representatives Charlotte Allen and Mark Goodwin. Imaging Equipment Limited reports that it had a successful time at the BNMS annual spring meeting last month and company representatives Charlotte Allen, Mark Goodwin, Will Bryan and Mike Lea enjoyed meeting visitors to the stand. Delegates were able to play arcade games and had the chance to […]

Director of nursing and clinical services Dr Lorraine Kelly, Canon Medical Systems account manager Colin Pellow, consultant radiologist Dr Nicholas Reading, imaging services manager/Aspen Group radiology lead Michele Fox, hospital director David Henderson, CT lead/MRI reporting radiographer Mayur Zaveri and Canon Medical Systems branch manager Simon Weeden. The Holly Private Hospital, Buckhurst Hill, has acquired a […]

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital radiology registrar Dr Dhaara Bhatt, Queen Victoria Hospital imaging lead and clinical director of strategy/consultant radiologist Dr Ian Francis, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust consultant radiologist and president of The Royal College of Radiologists Dr Nicola Strickland, Princess Alexandra Hospital consultant radiologist Dr Sridhar Redla, University of Warwick professor of […]

Find a seat early as sessions will be busy again this year. UKRCO organisers say that this year’s event offers one of the strongest programmes ever.  In addition to the FRCR drop-in sessions and a broad range of clinical sessions covering areas including MSK, cardiac, urology, paediatrics, breast, head and neck, obs/gynae, chest and gastrointestinal, there […]

Deputy superintendent paediatric radiographer Victoria Fowler (left) is pictured with staff at Southampton Children’s Hospital. Southampton Children’s Hospital’s space-age imaging department has been unveiled by staff and patients at an opening event in April.  Work on the £1.5 million radiology renovation began in March 2015 to renew and modernise diagnostic equipment and improve the environment […]

Delegates on the vascular ultrasound imaging course. Wessex Diagnostic held its bi-annual Vascular Ultrasound Imaging Training Course in Birmingham, in March, welcoming delegates from countries including Croatia, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Romania and the USA.  The mix of an experienced faculty with a limited number of dedicated delegates was intended to provide a great learning environment […]

Warren Hubble found the Ambient Experience calming during his MRI scan. County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has installed the first of two Philips MRI scanners through a deferred payment plan, and ongoing large-scale fund-raising activities.  The campaign has already raised more than £640,000 toward funding the devices. One of the first patients to […]

Pictured at a recent training session on a Hologic Horizon W DXA scanner supplied by Vertec Scientific are Vertec applications specialist Joy Thorpe, Northumbria University senior lecturer Ian Walshe, PhD student Emma Sweeney and lecturer Thomas Jones. Northumbria University is one of the largest universities in the UK, with more than 30,000 students from 134 […]