Aintree University Hospital

As well as the devastating effects of the virus itself, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption to NHS diagnostic care, and urgent services such as cancer and cardiac services. Pre-pandemic, the United Kingdom already faced a severe lack of provision of imaging equipment and had one of the lowest number of MRI units and CT scanners per capita among EU […]

In 2020 Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was awarded funding for a new CT scanner under the first round of Government funding for additional scanners and upgrades. Although the trust had ordered a CT scanner from Siemens Healthineers, there was no designated site for the new CT. The trust decided that a relocatable modular […]

Aintree University Hospital has reselected Canon Medical Systems to replace two end-of-life CT scanners with two Aquilion One Genesis Edition CT systems. Part of Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Aintree University Hospital serves a large patient population and is a regional major trauma centre. One of the biggest challenge the trust faced in the […]

Sonographer Paddy Grant, Canon Medical Systems clinical applications specialist Paula Connor, ultrasound manager Helen Campbell, deputy ultrasound manager Samantha Lacey, with sonographers Julie Davidson, Andrea Weston and Jackie Tyler. Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has purchased Canon Medical Systems’ latest Aplio i800 ultrasound system to be used for a wide variety of outpatients examinations, including […]

Bracco key account manager north-west Zenda Galley, CT lead radiographer Kate Hughes, CSI radiographers Neil Howard and Kelly McNamee and CSI RDA Rebecca Chadwick. Aintree University Hospital in Liverpool has installed a CT Exprès syringless injector from Bracco in its new A&E department.  CT lead radiographer Kate Hughes said: “We chose the CT Exprès injector […]

Consultant radiologists Dr Suzanne Amin and Dr Erica Thwaite, CSI manager Karen Irwin, CT manager Kate Hughes, consultant interventional radiologist Dr Aldo Camenzuli, radiographers Kathy Porritt and Ray Smith, Toshiba Medical Systems account executive CT/MR/XR Graham King and radiology clinical director Dr Rebecca Hanlon. Aintree University Hospital has added a Toshiba Aquilion Prime CT scanner, […]

Pictured at the handover of four GE Healthcare Venue 40 ultrasound systems to Aintree University Hospital, Liverpool, are GE Healthcare point-of-care ultrasound application specialist Laura Brereton, consultant anaesthetist Dr Neil Sahgal, specialty leader for orthopaedics Claire Rendall, senior ODP and medical device trainer Neil Rimmer, consultant anaesthetist Dr Ravish Shetty and GE Healthcare point-of-care ultrasound […]

Siemens Healthcare clinical applications specialist James Semons and regional sales manager Richard Evans with RDA Christine Sharpe, interim clinical business manager Carol Baker, principal radiographer Samantha Davis and consultant radiologist Dr Trupti Kulkarni. Aintree University Hospital is able to perform breast elastography procedures for the first time since it installed an Acuson S2000 from Siemens […]