Founder’s son opens refurbished department
With the Discovery 630 camera is head of department Dr Bill Thomson, GE Healthcare radiology account manager Nicky Jones, chief technologist Neil Smith and principal physicist Joe O’Brien.
The physics and nuclear medicine department at City Hospital, Birmingham, has undergone a £1.4m upgrade with two new gamma cameras, improved Xeleris 3 Processing network, refurbished waiting room, reception and reporting room.
Chair of the Sandwell and West Birmingham clinical commissioning group Dr Nicholas Harding opened the facility. He is the son of Dr Keith Harding, past president of BNMS and past chairman of ARSAC, who first set up the department 40 years ago.
A GE Healthcare Discovery 670 SPECT/CT, a Discovery 630 SPECT system and a GE Healthcare Infinia system together form a flexible imaging network, considered important for a busy workload of more than 8,000 scans a year.
See this report on page 12 of the January 2014 issue of RAD Magazine.
