A&E

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 […]

Wolverson X-ray has installed two advanced x-ray systems that are expected to enhance A&E care at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. The Arcoma Precision i5 is a fully auto positioning system with features such as live camera views, long bone image stitching on both the chest stand and table projections, virtual grid and line suppression. The system […]

First of four NHS sites roll out head CT AI to highlight critical head injury scans. A pioneering new multi-NHS site initiative has gone live, aiming to improve radiology report turnaround times for non-contrast CT head scans by creating prioritised reporting worklists of critical findings. This will allow emergency department (ED) clinicians at the Queen […]

NHS England – Midlands has provided £1.28 million funding to develop a new training model for the Midlands Imaging Training Academy (MITA) at County Hospital in Stafford, allowing one consultant to simultaneously train and supervise learners across all regional academy sites, giving other consultants more time to spend with patients. The new EPACS (electronics and […]

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, North East Ambulance Service and Fujifilm UK have been shortlisted in the ‘Acute sector innovation of the year’ category at the HSJ Awards 2021, for their X-ray Response Team trial. The X-ray Response Team trial in Northumbria used the Fujifilm FDR Xair portable x-ray system in conjunction with Fujifilm Cloud […]

This month’s UK Imaging & Oncology Congress (UKIO) will see Fujifilm unveil the results of Europe’s first real-world trial of the FDR Xair portable x-ray system in community care for the first time. The trial, a collaboration between Fujifilm UK, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, and the North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, significantly reduced […]

A&E lead and reporting radiographer Sarah Landeg reports that not even the COVID-19 pandemic could stop the long-awaited re-development of Croydon University Hospital’s A&E x-ray service. Phase one of building works began in March just before the hospital started to receive COVID-19 cases. Works continued throughout the peak of the pandemic and staff began using […]

CT imaging services in the emergency department (ED) at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust have taken a step forward in modernisation with the installation of an Aquilion One Genesis Edition CT scanner from Canon Medical Systems. Routine and specialist CT procedures are expected to be quicker, at low dose and with excellent image quality due […]