Carestream key account manager Jonathan Atkinson with senior radiographer Jill Robson, modality lead in plain imaging theatres and portables Laura Shaw, radiographers Katie Kiely and Nicola Oliver and assistant practitioner David Hall.
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, known as QE Gateshead, is in the final stages of installing three Carestream DRX-Evolution Plus digital x-ray rooms, two DRX-Revolution mobile digital x-ray systems and a DRX Mobile retrofit kit. Once this work is completed, its radiology department will benefit from being fully digital.
So far, two of the new DRX-Evolution Plus rooms from Carestream have been installed in the trust’s main radiology department. One of the two new DRX-Revolution mobile systems is being used in critical care and the other for general wards. The DRX Mobile retrofit kit is being used in the special care baby unit.
Radiology services lead Elaine Dickson said: “This equipment was chosen because it met the current needs of the department and because of the excellent image quality. Staff have found the new technology very easy to switch to, and this has been supported by having the same technology in multiple rooms and as mobile units. The new equipment is also ergonomically superior to previous equipment we used, which was another significant reason for choosing it.”
See the full report on page 4 of the September 2017 issue of RAD Magazine.