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Star baker Linda Mason with her trophy. Salford Royal Hospital has hosted a charity bake sale and raffle in aid of the Brain Tumour Charity and raised £384.  It was organised by senior radiographer Angela Frackleton who has worked with the charity as an ambassador since 2009 following the diagnosis of her father’s malignant brain […]

Radiographers Karstine Rado and Sheila Sillo, Bracco key account manager Phil Skinner and deputy cross-sectional superintendents Andrea Van Looy and Hannah Scott. Southend University Hospital has improved patient turnaround time since installing a CT Exprès contrast injector from Bracco.  Deputy cross-sectional superintendent Andrea Van Looy said: “The CT Exprès has helped us speed up our […]

Canon Medical Systems account manager Ruth Rowe and senior applications specialist Heather Dring, CT modality lead Cheryl Bean, CT radiographers Holly Fergusson, Eloise Collings and Faustina Walton, health care assistant Steph Wake and CT radiographer Portia Makuyana. Sunderland Royal Hospital has installed an Aquilion One Genesis Edition CT system in its newly-built emergency department. CT […]

Radiographers Iona Mullins and Amandeep Hujan, Philips UKI product specialist mobile surgery Simon Bunce, radiographer Emma Madigan and Philips UKI account manager Kara Slaney. St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has replaced existing equipment with a fourth BV Pulsera C-arm image intensifier that will be used in the day surgery unit.  It comes with […]

Director of medical physics and engineering at The Christie Professor Ranald Mackay. A leading physicist at The Christie has been named healthcare scientist of the year at the Healthcare Science Awards.  Professor Ranald Mackay, director of medical physics and engineering at the specialist cancer centre in Withington, Manchester, collected the accolade from HRH Princess Anne […]

In front are radiology manager Gill Holroyd, lead MRI radiographer Emma O’Reilly and MR product specialist Alison Kenny.  Behind them are zone clinical leader Andy Laycock, advanced practitioner MRI Iain Kennedy, GE imaging commercial lead Tim Jones and GE product manager Bastien Perez. St Helens Hospital, Merseyside, has installed the UK’s first Signa Pioneer 3.0T […]

Michelle Cain, Dawn Ledsom, Phil Reynolds and Conor Fitzpatrick will oversee the complete patient journey. The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre has appointed four consultant radiographers as part of an ongoing commitment to improving patient experience. Dawn Ledsom, Michelle Cain, Phil Reynolds and Conor Fitzpatrick have all started their new roles at the hospital in Wirral.  After […]

Siemens Healthineers regional sales manager Rob Newcombe, plain film and theatre superintendent Mark Paterson, radiographers Tom Brotherton and Gemma Campbell with core theatre radiographer Katie Watcham. Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, has updated its surgical equipment at the Royal Victoria Infirmary with four Cios […]