Blackpool Victoria Hospital

Blackpool Victoria Hospital has installed Canon Medical’s Aquilion One/Insight Edition with the Instinx platform to help diagnose and treat patients with heart or circulatory disease. The hospital scans around 4,500 patients a month, including over 50 cardiac patients weekly. The Aquilion One/Insight Edition improves image quality, optimises workflow and enables Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation […]

The CT team at Blackpool Victoria Hospital has made the switch from a syringe-based injector system to a multi-dosing injector system, which will optimise how the CT department can use contrast. The large teaching hospital and cardiac centre has a busy inpatient and outpatient service. Ward said: “Taking the decision to upgrade to a multi-dosing […]

East Midlands-based specialist distributor of radiology solutions Hospital Services Limited (HSL) has successfully delivered a radiology project in partnership with the department of radiology at Blackpool Teaching Hospital which will help the hospital’s radiology team continue to deliver an outstanding level of patient care and diagnostics. The streamlined radiology system installed by HSL will help […]

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been accredited by ISAS since 2011 and has now qualified for its replacement the Quality Standard for Imaging (QSI) 2019. Blackpool says it was the first NHS trust to receive accreditation and is one of a small group of trusts to have been accredited by UKAS. Maintaining this […]

Radiographer Devon Benton, lead radiographer Claire Nicoll, senior radiographer Celerino Matibag and radiographers Guillermo Guerra and John Banks. Blackpool Victoria Hospital’s new Fujifilm FDR nano mobile x-ray unit is being well used the radiology team.  “The staff really like using the FDR nano,” said lead radiographer Claire Nicoll.  “It’s so easy to use, manoeuvre and […]

Sonographers Beth Bourne and Janette Keit with the EasyPay kiosk. Blackpool Victoria Hospital is generating additional revenue with a cashless EasyPay Network payment kiosk, by accepting patient payments for baby scan photos. The kiosk is located in a walk-through area of the hospital and is accessible out-of-hours.  EasyPay Network provided its completely cashless payment kiosk, […]

Radiology manager Vera Mountain and radiology office manager Mark Selby with the ISAS Accreditation certificate and department staff. Staff at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s radiology department are celebrating having maintained accreditation with the Imaging Services Accreditation Scheme (ISAS) for the seventh year running. Radiology manager Vera Mountain said: “ISAS accreditation provides evidence for […]

In front are cardiology EP technician Ellen Moxon, staff nurses Ann Wareing and Rhys McCleary, superintendent radiographer Julie Kelsall, orderly Andy Fraser and sister Karen Jackson. Behind them are staff nurse Darren Spruce, radiographer Iain Binmore, sister Jenni Banks, radiographers Deborah Forsyth, Lisa Smith and Paul Redman, Philips UKI service delivery manager North West and […]