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Seated are consultant radiologist Dr Catherine Glynn and consultant radiologist and clinical lead Dr Aideen Larke.  Behind are Michael Leonard of Hospital Services Limited, radiographers Liya Phiri, Lucie Barry, Preetha Gopinathan and deputy radiology services manager Mary Fitzgerald. The BreastCheck Western Unit in Galway has installed the latest Hologic Affirm prone biopsy table, having received […]

Socialiser Tina accompanied by current trainee Don Don, Medical Detection Dogs chief operations officer Dan Howard, Davies head of oncology Mark Goodfellow and oncology specialist Isabelle Desmas-Bazelle. Davies Veterinary Specialists has raised £1,950 for Medical Detection Dogs over the past four months and is hoping to double this figure during the second phase of fund-raising […]

Medical Imaging Partnership chief executive Sarah Bricknell and business development director Katie Taylor with BIR president Andy Rogers. Medical Imaging Partnership has joined the British Institute of Radiology (BIR) as a corporate member and has provided five of its key staff with membership, to enable them to advance their learning and skills.  The company provides […]

Radiography assistant practitioner Linda Coulson, radiographer Helen Mitchell, radiology department manager Michele Mayes, radiology project manager Joanne Stephenson, radiographer Marcus Buckley, advanced practitioner radiographer Sandra Monks and Fujifilm senior account manager John Casson. Fairfield General Hospital, part of Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, is the latest hospital to install a Fujifilm Visionary Suite x-ray room […]

Superintendent radiographer Sheena Chauhan and patient Mike Thorpe. A red rose, picked from the garden at The Christie by a patient, has been chosen as the first item to be scanned by the hospital’s new MR-linac radiotherapy machine. The installation of the £5.3m machine was completed earlier this year and since then researchers at The […]

Toshiba Medical account manager Colin Pellow, pre-treatment team leader Sarah Knight, therapy radiographer Grant Bennett, assistant practitioner Katy Cooper, therapy radiographers Rosanna Langworthy and Graham Cone, Toshiba Medical CT senior applications specialist Andrew Watson and professional head of radiotherapy Jemma Chapman. The radiotherapy department at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge has replaced an aged CT scanner […]

GE Healthcare marketing manager for northern Europe Simon Hemsworth, Mark Worrall, BIR president Andy Rogers and GE Healthcare sales and marketing leader Dawn Philips. Radiation protection adviser Mark Worrall from Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, has won the first BIR/GE Radiation Safety Award.  The prize offers a bursary to enable the recipient to present their work on […]

Philips UKI interventional product specialist Simon Bunce, deputy modality manager Karran Gurney, radiographer John Beckwolden and modality manager Duncan Depledge. The General Hospital in Jersey has installed a Veradius Neo system from Philips UKI.  A counterbalanced C-arm with a thin flat detector, it consists of a C-arm stand with a compact footprint and rear-wheel steering […]