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Insignia Medical Systems programme manager Alan Lonie, UHB PACS manager Ian Wilson, UHB project manager Pankaj Das, Insignia managing director Richard Dormer, UHB imaging technical lead Barnaby Waters, UHB deputy director of operations, division A, Paul Brettle, Insignia operations manager Erik Dege, project manager Richard Tyler and chief technical officer Jon Hall. West Midlands Genomic […]

Hologic regional business manager, breast and skeletal health solutions Ambrose Murray, BIR president Andy Rogers and sales and marketing executive Sue Branfield. The British Institute of Radiology (BIR) has welcomed Hologic as a corporate member. BIR president Andy Rogers said: “We are delighted that Hologic has chosen to join the BIR as a corporate member.  […]

MR service manager Andrew Green, lead radiographer Liz Ashburner and senior directorate manager Paul Barker. Fairfield General Hospital in Bury has installed a Siemens Magnetom Aera 1.5T MRI scanner, which will provide images for around 6,000 patients a year.  Housed in a brand new unit, the equipment scanned its first patient in mid-December. “This is […]

Superintendent sonographer Royston Hibberd, support worker Gayle Godfrey, Toshiba Medical Systems clinical specialist, ultrasound, Erica Oliver, support worker Jackie Charles (seated) and sonographer Annie Crocker. Cwm Taf University Health Board has purchased four of Toshiba’s latest Aplio i-800 ultrasound systems, allocating two scanners for Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil and two for Ysbyty Cwm Rhondda […]

Advanced practitioner Janice Harris, breast screening unit programme manager Janet Cumiskey, advanced practitioner Jackie Westgarth, senior mammographer Alex Smith, GE Healthcare regional account manager Peter Hobson and deputy superintendent mammographer Jennifer Clarke. Gateshead NHS Foundation Trust is the first in the UK to install the Senographe Pristina mammography system from GE Healthcare.  The system was […]

Senior radiographer James Bottom, consultant radiologist Dr Garrett McGann, radiology sister Melanie Cooper, assistant practitioner Alice Prior, Philips UKI district general manager Lee Moger, care assistant Simon Coombes, radiographer Tony Wager, Philips UKI team lead and senior engineer Chris Bax and commercial lead imaging systems south Jane Robinson. Gloucestershire Royal Hospital has upgraded its interventional suite […]

Soliton IT representatives were delighted to receive their award at a gala dinner held by Nuance Health. Supplier of voice recognition applications Nuance Health held its annual Partner User Conference in Barcelona to mark the transition to a fully digital future in healthcare.  The conference comprised delivery and interactive sessions, concentrating on latest voice recognition […]

Urology nurse specialist Corinne Buckett, CNS uro-oncology Kevin Wardlaw and healthcare support worker Theresa Yule. A Hitachi Arietta V60 ultrasound unit has been selected as system of choice for the upgrade pathway in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary’s urology department.  It was chosen for its wide range of transducers, in particular the ‘through-crystal’ C25P probe for percutaneous nephrolithotomies […]