Maternity imaging service provides local scanning

Toshiba Medical ultrasound specialist Tracey Bellas, consultant midwife Jaki Lambert, radiology department manager Mark Nichols, Toshiba ultrasound sales specialist Scott Couper, midwife sonographer Becky Brown and sonographer Helen Payne.

Lorn and Islands District General Hospital has partnered with Toshiba Medical to launch a maternity scanning service for expectant mothers across the Oban region in Scotland.  Sonographers will use a Toshiba Aplio 400 ultrasound system and three probes to launch a convenient local service for mothers-to-be.  It will cover Argyll, Bute and surrounding areas, as well as Mull and Tiree islands.  Over 350 expectant mothers every year will have access to a first-class maternity scanning service including dating scans, Down’s syndrome screening, detailed anomaly scans and growth scans.

Sonographer Helen Payne says this will make it much easier for local expectant women to get the necessary scans: “Until this local service was launched patients had to spend anywhere between two-and-a-half to four hours travelling to Glasgow for their scans.”

See the full report on page 3 of the September 2017 issue of RAD Magazine.