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Chief executive officer Karl-Heinz Lumpi, Western Europe director Claudio Buffagni and country manager UK and Ireland Jayesh Odedra. Esaote has appointed Jayesh Odedra as country manager for UK and Ireland.  He brings more than 28 years of sales and service experience in the medical imaging industry, with a comprehensive understanding of ultrasound and MRI.  “Jayesh’s […]

Radiographers Pernille Klenz Andersen and Line Willemoes Poulsby. After four months evaluating Fujifilm’s D-Evo GL long view detector for scoliosis and hip/knee/ankle examinations, Copenhagen University Hospital (Rigshospitalet) has declared that it is satisfied with the results.  “The GL detector is very fast,” said radiographer Pernille Klenz Andersen. “It takes less than half the time to […]

At the London venue consultant radiographer at James Paget Hospital Dawn McDonald is pictured with Canon Medical Systems director of ultrasound Stuart Mills and consultant radiologist at Charing Cross Hospital Professor Adrian Lim. Canon Medical Systems has hosted two ultrasound study days with a clinical focus, one in London and one in York. Entitled ‘State-of-the-art […]

The BIR welcomes The Chinese Society of Radiology.  Pictured are Dr Nan Hong, Dr Bin Song, Dr Yaning Wang, BIR chief executive Simon Thompson, BIR head of membership and communications Carole Cross, BIR vice president publications Dr Nicholas Screaton, BIR president Andy Rogers, president of the Chinese Society of Radiology Professor Zhengyu Jin. The British […]

In front are imaging manager Margo Williams and senior staff nurse Sarah Deefholts, with Carestream senior account manager Wayne Sharpe and staff nurse Suksung Lee. Recently-opened Croydon Day Hospital, part of Ramsay Health Care group, has had a Carestream DRX-Evolution Plus room installed. Imaging manager Margo Williams said: “We were looking for a flexible general […]

Superuser Vicky Rogers, radiographers Ben Elstob and Emily Manu, Samsung account manager Tony Rogers, general superintendent Liz Page and senior radiographer Tari Gandari. Northampton General Hospital has completed the installation of the first of a pair of Samsung GC85 DR x-ray suites supplied by MIS Healthcare.  General superintendent Liz Page explained that she and her […]

CRY cardiologist, professor of cardiology and lead for the inherited cardiomyopathies and sports cardiology unit Professor Sanjay Sharma, cardiac nurse Amanda Potterton, cardiologist Dr Michael Papadakis, physiologists Paulo Bulleros and Zeph Fanton. Research and clinical teams at the Centre for Inherited Heart Conditions and Sports Cardiology at St George’s, University of London, have welcomed a […]

The SonoSite SII system is enabling chemotherapy patients to be fitted with portacaths instead of traditional PICC lines. The fund-raising efforts of Breast Friends Solihull and the University Hospitals Birmingham Charity is helping to improve the quality of life for metastatic breast cancer patients in the West Midlands.  A Fujifilm SonoSite SII ultrasound system funded […]