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Dr Parmy Deol finds the Fujifilm SonoSite X-Porte system robust, which is important in a department where equipment is moved frequently. London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital relies on point-of-care ultrasound to help assess and treat patients in its emergency department and uses a Fujifilm SonoSite X-Porte system. Dr Parmy Deol, EMED consultant, explained: “The emergency […]

The inventors of Vision RT technology vp operations Gideon Hale, ceo Dr Norman Smith and cto Dr Ivan Meir. Vision RT is a finalist for the Royal Academy of Engineering’s MacRobert Award, the UK’s longest running and most prestigious national prize for engineering innovation. MacRobert Award judge Professor David Delpy CBE said: “3D imaging technology […]

Sonographers Pauline Doherty and Diane Cousins. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has installed two EasyPay Network payment kiosks in its antenatal ultrasound departments.  The kiosks installed in Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble District General Hospital allow patients to purchase their baby scan pictures. Sonographer Diane Cousins said: “We were really happy […]

Toshiba Medical ultrasound applications specialist Erica Oliver, sports physician Dr Roger Denton, programme leader Dr Alf Turner and course organiser, senior lecturer and sonographer Alison McBride. The Welsh Institute of Chiropractic (WIOC), an outpatient clinic of the University of South Wales, has acquired an Aplio 400 ultrasound system, which was delivered with Panoramic and SMI […]

Asteral representatives and hospital staff sign the Asteral Select service contract. Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust has become Asteral’s ninth customer for its Asteral Select vendor-independent radiology managed equipment service contract.  The service, which began in April, includes a comprehensive asset replacement programme as well as the managed maintenance of 77 clinical […]

Carestream key account manager Jonathan Atkinson with senior radiographer Jill Robson, modality lead in plain imaging theatres and portables Laura Shaw, radiographers Katie Kiely and Nicola Oliver and assistant practitioner David Hall. Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, known as QE Gateshead, is in the final stages of installing three Carestream DRX-Evolution Plus digital x-ray rooms, […]

Hologic breast health sales specialist Kathryn Cooke, consultant radiologist Dr Shalini Wijesuriya, mammographer Alison Ashby and unit manager Joanne de Charmoy. Sloane Diagnostic Imaging is an Alliance Medical run multi-modality imaging centre based at BMI The Sloane Hospital in Beckenham, Kent.  The centre has recently upgraded its mammography equipment, installing a Hologic Selenia Dimensions 3D […]

Fujifilm engineer Sanjeet Baram, radiology operations manager Simon Dyble, Fujifilm engineer Clive Adcock and medical informatics sales specialist Paul Newman, plain film lead radiographer Douglas Appleby, radiographers Emma Webster and Victoria Wicks, business relationship manager Chris Lees and trust PACS and IEP manager Martin Doddington. Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust agreed a […]