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Third and final linac installed at Royal Derby Hospital

Officially opening the latest TrueBeam is trust medical director Dr Nigel Sturrock (fourth from left), with Althea implementation programme manager George Iliopoulos (second from left) and trust department staff, consultants, and the first patient treated on the first TrueBeam to be installed. Installation of three linear accelerators in the radiotherapy department at Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS […]

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Princess Alexandra Hospital invests in pair of scanners

Canon Medical Systems ultrasound applications specialist Lisa Wright, deputy lead sonographer Paula Mattock, Canon Medical Systems ultrasound account manager Iain Dunn, student sonographers Ed Onyewuotu and Vidhya Mohanasundaram and sonographer Ciara Saw. Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow, has invested in two Canon Medical Systems Aplio i800 ultrasound systems for its maternity department.  A new generation of […]

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Royal Bournemouth chooses flexible DR for A&E

X-ray clinical lead Paul List, lead ED radiographer manager Tom Beaumont, advanced practitioner Chris Legge, senior radiographer Natalie Dolan and MIS healthcare account manager Bryan Fernandez. The radiology department at The Royal Bournemouth Hospital, managed by James Knowles, has installed a Samsung GC85 digital general x-ray system in the busy A&E section. Room six presented […]

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Frimley Park consultant uses POC ultrasound at the bedside

Dr Madan Narayanan with a SonoSite system. Frimley Park Hospital’s anaesthesia and intensive care departments depend upon point-of-care ultrasound (POC) ultrasound procedures to guide and provide bedside diagnostics.  Dr Madan Narayanan, a consultant anaesthetist with international teaching experience, explained: “We use ultrasound for lung and heart scans, vascular access and to guide injections for regional […]

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ENT consultants value image quality achieved

Sonographer Paddy Grant, Canon Medical Systems clinical applications specialist Paula Connor, ultrasound manager Helen Campbell, deputy ultrasound manager Samantha Lacey, with sonographers Julie Davidson, Andrea Weston and Jackie Tyler. Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has purchased Canon Medical Systems’ latest Aplio i800 ultrasound system to be used for a wide variety of outpatients examinations, including […]

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Scanner improves patient communication and scan times

In front are MRI team leader Helen Lippitt, radiographer Cecille Mason, radiology manager Michelle Poulson, hospital director Simon Milner, consultant radiologist Dr Robert Johnson and Philips UKI district general manager Lee Moger.  Behind them are Philips UKI product manager Lisa Probert, matron Julie Wild, Philips UKI national commercial manager Russell Birch, IGT business lead Sally […]

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SRS tumour targeting for patients in the East Midlands

Clinical nurse specialist Rebecca Bentley, SRS lead radiographer Rachel Clements, consultant clinical oncologist Dr Luis Aznar-Garcia, IGRT lead radiographer Suzanne Jordan, SRS lead physicist Anna Bangiri and radiotherapy services manager Russell Hart. Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is the first trust in the UK to have installed pioneering equipment to enable patients in the East Midlands […]

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University of Wales Hospital installs a second cath lab

In front are Lee Moger and Sally Maclachlan of Philips UKI, lead cardiologist Dr Peter O’Callaghan shaking hands with Jane Robinson of Philips UKI, radiographer Tony Rodriquez and staff nurse Georgina Inesku.  Behind are radiographer Jason Dalton, Chris Bax and Aiden Jones of Philips UKI, staff nurse Vivienne Rees and superintendent radiographer Penny Lloyd. As […]

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