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Vertec Scientific and Guangdong Meicen Medical Equipment have signed a collaborative agreement for the distribution of Meicen’s extensive range of radiotherapy immobilisation aids and consumables in the UK. Meicen has more than 8,000 square metres of modern manufacturing and workshop space, as well as independent R&D engineers developing their product range of thermoplastic masks, patient positioning devices and […]

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is piloting an AI tool designed to improve prostate cancer diagnosis. In collaboration with Lucida Medical, the trust is testing the effectiveness of the Prostate Intelligence (Pi) tool, an advanced AI and machine learning software system, in detecting prostate cancer lesions from MRI scans. Patients with prostate cancer face a complex diagnostic […]

Multinational medical company Bracco UK has opened its first UK warehouse for repairing and testing products in-house. Bracco signed a lease on a 5,685 square foot warehouse and 1,549 square foot office in Warwick. With headquarters in Italy, the company manufactures and distributes products used in contrast imaging along with the devices to administer them. While the UK arm […]

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 […]