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When a community diagnostic centre rented not one but two rental solutions for their facility. Some time ago, Agito Medical delivered a CT relocatable rental unit to Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust in the United Kingdom. Agito delivered one of its brand-new units featuring a state-of-the-art Aquilion Prime SP 160 slice system. This rental […]

Hospitals have been busy rescheduling patients who were unable to receive tests due to COVID-19 restrictions. Probo Medical recognises that short and long-term rental units would assist hospitals by allowing them to pay only for what they needed, rather than purchasing a new unit, sending patients elsewhere or scheduling them for months ahead. The rentals […]

Fairford Medical has been supporting The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust with an unstaffed interim mobile MRI to provide scanning services while the trust undertakes a lengthy capital upgrade at its original west London site. Fairford Medical initially delivered one of its three-year-old mobile Siemens Avanto MRI systems, but offered to replace it as soon […]

The official opening of a purpose-built MRI building at Kingston Hospital, Surrey, took place on November 5. This is the third phase in a 15-year contract awarded in 2017 to provide an exclusive, fully managed MRI service. With a brief to support Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in meeting the growing demand for MR imaging within […]

Mayor Councillor Marco Longhi (right) and Mayoress Andrea Longhi (second from right), with InHealth director of operations north Graham Ogden (third from right) and the MRI team. InHealth has opened a new MRI scanning unit as part of the InHealth MRI Centre at Manor Hospital, Walsall.  Senior trust management, senior clinicians and InHealth representatives were […]

Tim Farron MP with Professor Anwar Padhani from Paul Strickland Scanner Centre in the MRI scanner control room. A £1.5 million charity-funded MRI scanner unit at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre was officially opened by Tim Farron MP, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Radiotherapy, during a special event in September. The MRI unit was […]

New business Future Medical Equipment reports that it has had a busy few months with the removal of a Siemens Healthineers Magnetom Area MRI scanner and a six and a half tonne Magnetom Skyra MRI scanner in July. Both MRIs were removed from Europe, brought to the Future Medical headquarters to be filled with helium, […]

The Siemens Healthineers team at UKRCO. This year, Siemens Healthineers brought a new-look stand to UKRCO, with the Magnetom Vida taking centre stage.  The scanner is the first 3.0T MRI scanner with BioMatrix technology, enabling it to cater for all the challenges patients may face with their MRI scan.  A range of coils and a […]