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The Canon Medical Systems UK Management team: Director of MES Ian Watson, chief financial officer Graham Little, director, service, and technical support Paul Parsons and UK managing director Mark Hitchman. The transition of Toshiba Medical Systems to Canon Medical Systems UK is complete and along with the name change comes fresh energy, greater access to […]

Professional lead for medical sciences Charles Sloane, The Christie principal radiographer Susan Todd and practice education facilitator Matthew Stephenson. Diagnostic radiography students at the University of Cumbria are to benefit from clinical placements at a world-leading cancer treatment centre. The university has signed an agreement with The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester to host […]

CT radiographer Mustafa Hassan with Fairford Medical clinical manager David Doherty. Whittington Hospital, London, is undergoing a full departmental renovation that will span a two-year period.  The initial phase includes the replacement of its current CT system, which meant an interim mobile CT solution was required.  Fairford Medical delivered and commissioned a Canon Medical Systems […]

Senior radiographers Agnes Gouveia and Tracey Tuskin with assistant radiographer Debbie Murphy. Poole Hospital’s radiology department has implemented several new methods to make x-ray examinations more comfortable for patients with dementia.  These include booking in patients with dementia at less busy times, changing the patient’s clothes in the x-ray room rather than a separate room, thoroughly […]

MIS Healthcare account manager Phil Jones, radiographer principal Steve Baker, radiographer Freya Beilby, with radiographer specialists Amy Rowntree and Emily Allen.   York Hospital has chosen Samsung GC and GM general and mobile DR x-ray equipment following its most recent equipment replacement process.  Supplied by MIS Healthcare, the Samsung systems join those already installed at […]

BNMS ceo Charlotte Weston and administrator Caroline Oxley cutting the BNMS Springer cake. The 46th annual spring meeting of the British Nuclear Medicine Society took place on April 14-16 at the ICC in Birmingham.  The first morning kicked off with a boot camp session with lectures on ‘EANM/SNMMI guideline for 18F-FDG use in inflammation and […]

Senior MRI radiographer at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Kumaar Thiagarajan and senior radiographer at Vista Diagnostics InHealth, London, Shyam Bheemreddy won a quiz and received FC Barcelona shirts as a prize. Canon Medical Systems returned to FC Barcelona for its two-day MRI users meeting. With a full agenda, participants commented on the informative, well […]

Liz Beckmann (centre) of Imaging Innovated discusses a new course with Nicky Mills and Steve Kennedy from Bracco. Following the success of its current courses, Imaging Innovated is introducing several new ones.  One of these will look at administering intravenous injections for radiographers, covering the key aspects of injectors and contrast media as well as […]