Ambient Experience

Three-year project delivers scanning suite for Royal Cornwall in Truro

Royal Philips joined staff at Royal Cornwall Hospital to celebrate the opening of a new scanning suite and dedicated haematology and oncology ward, complete with Philips MRI Ambient Experience system. Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has opened its purpose-built Trelawny scanning suite and Lowen haematology/oncology ward at its Treliske site in Truro. The extension to […]

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Ambient Experience helps reduce patient anxiety during interventional procedures

Royal Philips’ new solution for interventional rooms, Ambient Experience with FlexVision display, is now commercially available. Connecting to the Azurion image-guided therapy system, it uses the system’s large display to offer patients a calming multisensory experience while staff prepare, prior to the display being used for the actual procedure. It also allows patients and interventional […]

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MR-OR helps reduce use of anaesthesia in children at Nottingham

Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has acquired a Philips MR-OR intraoperative MRI system. It is being used as a dedicated paediatric MR scanner and, by incorporating Philips’ KittenScanner and Ambient Experience, is helping children undertake MR examinations without general anaesthesia. MR-OR is an integrated solution for the Philips Elition X […]

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Philips and Disney team up to improve MRI experience for children

Royal Philips and The Walt Disney Company EMEA are teaming up to test the effects of custom-made animation, including specially-made Disney stories, within the Philips Ambient Experience. Through the integration of architecture, design and technologies such as dynamic lighting, video projections and sound, Ambient Experience allows patients and staff to personalise the environment to create […]

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Quiet MRI scanner removes the need for anaesthetic

Warren Hubble found the Ambient Experience calming during his MRI scan. County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has installed the first of two Philips MRI scanners through a deferred payment plan, and ongoing large-scale fund-raising activities.  The campaign has already raised more than £640,000 toward funding the devices. One of the first patients to […]

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Digital broadband MRI receives positive feedback

Seated are senior MRI radiographer Alexandra Wingrove, chair of the League of Friends Pat Bradley, radiology site manager Chris Williams and deputy radiology site manager Emma Dean.  Standing are Philips UKI service delivery manager Aiden Jones and district general manager Lee Moger, senior radiographer Graham Boiling, trust chair Caragh Merrick, Philips UKI key account manager […]

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Johnson opens Canary Wharf health centre

LycaHealth chair Prema Subaskaran, Mayor of London Boris Johnson, Philips Healthcare business development manager London Tim Regan, LycaHealth ceo Dr Manpreet Gulati and Philips Healthcare ceo UK and Ireland Neil Mesher. Healthcare company LycaHealth has opened its first centre in London.  Located at Canary Wharf, and equipped with Philips Healthcare’s imaging systems, the facility was officially opened by […]

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Galway’s personalised environments reduce repeat scans

Philips Healthcare account manager David Murphy, Galway Clinic chief executive officer Joe O’Donovan, cfo Robert Glynn, MRI clinical specialist Niamh Guilfoyle, deputy radiology services manager Eimear Mulhall, mammography clinical specialist Aideen Mangan and Philips Ireland general manager Larry Keaveney. The Galway Clinic, Ireland, has invested in a Philips Ingenia 1.5T MRI with full Ambient Experience and […]

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