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Manchester Royal adds second reliable ultrasound

Sonographer Omobola Shehu, superintendent sonographer Lynn Kenderdine, sonographer Holly Barlow, RDA’s Lewis Fouracre and Martin Wilkinson, sonographer Charlotte Hudson and Hitachi Medical Systems UK clinical application specialist Ann Harvey. Manchester Royal Infirmary’s ultrasound department has installed an additional Hitachi Hi Vision Ascendus ultrasound platform equipped with contrast harmonic imaging and shear wave elastography to complement an […]

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Aquilion Prime CT for Homerton University Hospital

Seated are CT lead radiographer Tara McGinley and deputy lead CT radiographer John Hannigan.  Behind are Toshiba Medical account manager Colin Pellow, radiology imaging manager Niamh McGuiness and consultant radiologist Dr Kamini Patel. Homerton University Hospital has acquired a Toshiba Medical Aquilion Prime CT scanner to replace its existing Aquilion 64 system and Vitrea workstations.  […]

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Air ambulance charity updates fleet

With the new helicopter are EHAAT crew member Gaynor Wareham and Tony Stone (third from left) with SonoSite’s Vanessa Wickens and Anthony Morris. Essex and Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT) was joined by SonoSite representatives at Audley End House, Essex, to help the charity celebrate its 20th anniversary and unveil its rebranded fleet. EHAAT is equipped […]

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First UK Signa Explorer Lift upgrade in Manchester

GE Healthcare MRI product specialist Alison Kenny, senior MRI/CT radiographer Nick Duncan, senior MRI clinical assistant Louise Ringland, senior MRI/CT radiographer Shahida Parueen and MRI clinical lead Angela Lowe. GE Healthcare has performed its first Signa Explorer Lift upgrade in the UK, transforming an old Signa HD MRI system at North Manchester General Hospital.  The […]

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Breast screening service joins trust’s data sharing

Kidderminster radiographers in the mammography room. Herefordshire and Worcestershire Breast Screening Service, based at the Princess of Wales Community Hospital in Bromsgrove, has agreed a PACS contract with Insignia Medical Systems. The project will see the migration of over eight years’ data, and the addition of screening modalities located at Bromsgrove and Hereford.  The Insignia […]

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New distributor for Esaote in Ireland

Members of the SMC sales team with an Esaote MyLab Alpha ultrasound scanner. As part of its ongoing growth plans Esaote has appointed a new distributor for its ultrasound and MRI products throughout Ireland. Scientific, Medical, Clinical Limited (known as SMC) has many years of experience supplying and supporting customers throughout Ireland.  It will be […]

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Addenbrooke’s is pleased with mobile choice

Fujifilm account manager Iain Sims, radiographers Stephanie Johnson and Charlotte Lilley, lead radiographer Carolyn Woolhead, A&E lead radiographer Rachel Ives, advanced practitioner Ashleigh Masson, radiographer Daniel Furness and advanced practitioner Thomas Dunham. In 2016, a team from Addenbrooke’s Hospital’s radiology department attended UKRC with an important objective – to source a new fleet of mobile […]

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Mobile units reduce reject analysis rates

In front are acting A&E superintendent radiographer Sue Delaney and deputy CT superintendent radiographer Mike Pashler.  Behind them are senior radiographer Beccy Knight and superintendent radiographer Bex King. Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has gone mobile with the addition of two X30 mobile units from Konica Minolta’s Aero DR equipment range to its […]

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