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Staff nurse Louise McDonald, senior radiographer Fiona Whittet, superintendent radiographer Judith Burton, ATO Suz Braithwaite and Synapse Medical UK clinical applications specialist Gabriel Araoz Zapata.   Borders General Hospital, Melrose, Scotland, has purchased an Ulrich CT Motion contrast media injector from distributor Synapse Medical UK.   Superintendent radiographer Judith Burton said: “We are really impressed […]

ABS clinical director Dr Alexandra Valencia and consultant radiographer Gillian Clark. Avon Breast Screening (ABS) has extended its managed service contract with Insignia Medical Systems for five years.  ABS is one of the largest breast screening departments in the country and first signed with Insignia in 2010.  The programme is coordinated through the Avon Breast […]

Nanosonics UK Scottish sales and support Alastair Pittman with radiographer Ishbel Walker. NHS Western Isles is one of the latest Scottish health boards to install a Nanosonics trophon EPR automated high level disinfection system for ultrasound probes. NHS Western Isles acting radiology manager Jane MacDonald said: “Using wipes was time-consuming to decontaminate regular transvaginal probe […]

In front are trainee sonographer Catherine Elmes and ultrasound department assistant Jane Rosevear.  Behind are advanced practitioner sonographers Becca Morgan and Rita Phillips, team leader Tracey Blacker, advanced practitioner sonographers Elena Williams and Sue Jones and Toshiba Medical Systems applications specialist Helen Lockyer. Royal United Hospital, Bath, has purchased two Toshiba Medical Systems Aplio i-800 […]

Point-of-care systems are used in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh’s emergency ultrasound training programme. Point-of-care ultrasound plays an important role in the management of cardiac arrest, as emergency medicine consultant at Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Dr Matthew Reed explained:  “We set up an emergency ultrasound training programme almost 10 years ago, purchasing a Fujifilm SonoSite […]

Pictured at the ‘Radiation for diagnostic and treatment’ session, one of the oral parallel sessions at the forum, are Mr Rajiv Prasad of IAEA, Dr Maria del Rosario Perez of WHO, Professor Magdalena Stoeva of IOPM, Dr Miriam Mikhail of RAD-AID, ISRRT’s Stewart Whitley and Kristina Hatcher of the US Department of Energy. The third […]

Mould room manager Matthew York with Vertec Scientific product specialist David White. Vertec Scientific has supplied Northampton General Hospital’s radiotherapy department with a Klarity dry oven.  The department is part of one of the largest specialist radiotherapy treatment facilities in the UK. Mould room manager Matthew York said: “The oven gives us greater flexibility to […]

Joint clinical director of radiology Dr Jill Hunt, lead superintendent radiographer Nuala Littlechild, Carestream managing director Charlie McCaffrey, chief superintendent radiographer Louise Barker-Devereux and radiology services manager Sue Daniels. West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust (West Herts) is replacing an existing PACS with a Carestream Vue PACS and Vue VNA.  The five-year contract will be provided […]