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Carestream Health managing director Charlie McCaffrey is pictured presenting Cobalt Health ceo Peter Sharpe with a certificate for installing the world’s first Carestream OnSight 3D Extremity System at its imaging centre in Cheltenham. Medical charity Cobalt has a history of assisting in the adoption of new services into the NHS by making early investment in […]

Standing are faculty members Dr Amit Parekh, Toshiba Medical Systems ultrasound applications specialist Mair Howe, Dr Nick Ridley, Dr Matt Jaring and Dr Lucy Hilder.  Seated are Dr Noor Ali and Dr Sarah Allsop. A pilot project jointly run by staff at the Centre for Applied Anatomy and radiology staff from local Bristol NHS trusts,was organised […]

Pictured following the handover of a Hologic Horizon W DXA system supplied by Vertec Scientific to the rheumatology unit at Basildon University Hospital are consultant rheumatologist, osteoporosis Dr Anupama Nandagudi, clinic chaperone Emily Webb, patient pathway officer Tracey Trott, Vertec product specialist Bill Reid, osteoporosis nurse specialist Jessica Meadway, MEMS team leader Paul Malone, associate […]

At Fairfield General Hospital are Fujifilm senior account manager John Casson, senior radiographers Charlotte Byrne and Louise Heap, radiology manager Michele Mayes and Fujifilm applications specialist Alex Worsely. Fairfield General Hospital in Bury and The Royal Oldham Hospital, Greater Manchester, are the latest to take delivery of Fujifilm FDR Go mobile x-ray units.  The hospitals, […]

Konica Minolta sales manager David Halfpenny, lead radiographer Beverley Brett, student assistant practitioner Emily Gordon and lead radiographer Rebecca Stone. Brentwood Hospital in Essex, run by Nuffield Health, has improved image quality and reduced patient doses with the installation of Konica Minolta’s Aero DR solutions.  Imaging manager Dawn Moat said: “The retrofit to our x-ray […]

Consultant clinical oncologist Andrew Chan and research radiographer Vicky Sturgess with patient David Cobb. Retired headmaster David Cobb from Stratford-upon-Avon was one of the first people to benefit from stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) at the Arden Cancer Centre, University Hospital Coventry, and has now been told that he is in remission. In August 2016 Cobb […]

Bursary recipient Mr Gashirai, who presented at the ISRRT Conference in Seoul with WRETF chair Cynthia Cowling. The World Radiography Educational Trust Foundation (WRETF) has been reviewing its fund-raising strategy following a successful 2016 that saw the trust support several educational travel bursaries for radiography disciplines of up to £500 each, as well as a […]

Varian Medical Systems UK and Ireland sales director Adele Lyons, head of medical physics Professor Andrew Nisbet, chair Sue Sjuve and head of radiotherapy Marianne Dabbs. Royal Surrey Hospital in Guilford has received Varian Medical Systems’ 100th TrueBeam linear accelerator to be installed in the UK seven years after the company’s flagship product was launched. […]