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As winter months bring reduced daylight hours, a proposed study at Paul Strickland Scanner Centre (PSSC), Northwood, aims to evaluate whether specially designed artificial lighting can improve wellbeing and mood among the radiography workforce. Pending official research approval, the study will focus on addressing the effects of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a common condition during the colder […]

The A&E department at Watford General Hospital, part of West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, is rapidly assessing patients with an Agfa DR 100s system. The agile system quickly provides quality images in the busy resuscitation area where patients requiring the most urgent life-saving care are identified, assessed and treated. “In the resuscitation area every moment really does […]

Aptvision has welcomed Intelerad as a new partner, using its PACS solution as a complementary Aptvision RIS solution. The partnership will increase its PACS imaging and RIS informatics portfolio across a number of countries including the UK and Ireland, in providing the visionRIS + PACS offering as a fully managed cloud-hosted software as a service (SaaS). […]

A £12.2 million MRI outpatients department that provides three state-of-the-art MRI systems has opened at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. Doctors, specialist radiographers and the radiology management team played a key role in the design of the facility, which is located next to the front entrance of the hospital. Taking more than three years to […]

Radiology technology company Hexarad has completed a €13 million growth round, with European healthcare technology growth equity investor MTIP leading the round alongside reinvestment from existing shareholders, including the Foresight Group. Headquartered in London, Hexarad was founded in 2016 by a group of NHS consultant radiologists. Hexarad has had consistent annual revenue growth of over 120 per […]

Since the installation of an Esaote O-scan Premium extremity MRI system at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital in 2019, more than 5,000 examinations have been completed, significantly freeing up capacity on the hospital’s main MRI scanners by handling a substantial proportion of knee, ankle, foot, elbow, wrist and scaphoid scans. Now the hospital is planning to update the system. “In […]

The Fundamental Skills in MRI course, organised by Imaging Innovated, teaches important principles of MRI, focusing on clinical scenario-based learning to support application of theory to clinical practice, improving fundamental clinical skills in MRI. The use of a Corsmed Simulator as an integral part of the course enables the parameters for any image to be altered […]

Dr Simon Jackson has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by outgoing British Institute of Radiology (BIR) president Professor Stephen Keevil, as a mark of his special contributions to the BIR. The medal was presented at the inauguration event of new president Dr Nicholas Screaton. Dr Jackson recently retired as vice president for education. He is also […]