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InHealth PETCT clinical operations manager Ralph Toop, Barts Health head of nuclear medicine and radiopharmacy Dr Neil Hartman, cross-site lead radiographer Giorgio Testanera, consultant in nuclear medicine Dr Hikmat Jan, InHealth superintendent radiographer Nelly Keeka and business development manager Jonathan Webb. Diagnostic services and healthcare solutions provider InHealth has begun mobile PETCT services at Barts […]

PMP sales director Sharon Smith with BIR chief executive Jacqueline Fowler. Premium Medical Protection (PMP) has joined The British Institute of Radiology as a corporate member.  Corporate subscribers are encouraged to join the BIR community and to collaborate in educational developments and get involved with publishing activities. PMP is a provider of medical indemnity insurance […]

Radiographers Michelle McCusker and Heather Roper, lead radiographer MRI Deborah Garlick, radiographer Janet Lewis and Philips UKI account manager, imaging systems Steve Oliver. Following the provision of imaging equipment to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital by Philips UKI under a commercial agreement in October 2015, the company has donated wall graphics for the MRI, CT fluoroscopy […]

With clinical lead Dr Bettina Kleine are ultrasound support workers Lindsey Barnett, Christine Wailes, Laura Khan and Kim Jolly. The Diagnostic Ultrasound Coventry NHS service run by the Holbrooks Health Team is now using an automated high level disinfection system to reprocess its ultrasound probes.  Previously the service was using a manual wipe system before […]

Fujifilm SonoSite’s education manager and clinical apps specialist Vanessa Wickens, regional sales manager Lee Murray and emergency medicine consultant Dr George Nada. King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s emergency department in London deals with over 400 cases every day and pint-of-care ultrasound now forms an integral part of many patient assessment pathways.  Emergency medicine consultant […]

Stoke Mandeville Hospital sonographer Sarah Doran. Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has gone live with a HealthNetConnections (HNC) integrated GE ViewPoint ultrasound reporting system for its obstetric and fetal medicine ultrasound service across Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe Hospital.  All ultrasound findings, charts and measurements are now electronically captured within the GE ViewPoint system and, coupled with […]

Pictured following the handover of a Calmed Insufflator supplied by Vertec Scientific to Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny, are senior radiographer George Partridge, superintendent radiographer CT/MR Polly Watts, senior radiographer CT/MR Helen Dallyn, Vertec product specialist Gavin Adcock and senior radiographer CT/MR Caroline Ngatiah. The Calmed CT1400 CO2 system is one of three supplied to the […]

MIS account manager – Midlands Tony Rogers, radiology site manager Nick Clark, senior radiographer Amanda Douglas, deputy superintendent radiographer Lucy Lewis, MIS account manager – north Phil Jones and Asteral chief technologist Francesca Evans. University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has partnered with Asteral to install the first of four digital x-ray rooms at Glenfield […]