Bristol

A £1.5 million MRI scanner donated by Bristol-based charity BUST (Breast Cancer Unit Support Trust) was officially opened in January, by Lord-Lieutenant of the County and City of Bristol Peaches Golding OBE. Housed at Cossham Hospital, part of North Bristol NHS Trust, the Siemens Healthineers Magnetom Vida 3.0T MRI system will increase capacity for scanning […]

Practice Plus Group Hospital Emersons Green, Bristol, has invested £90,000 in state-of-the-art x-ray equipment to improve patient waiting times and enhance the accuracy of diagnostic imaging. A Carestream Dental cone beam CT scanner, said to be one of two in south Gloucestershire, allows the radiology team to zoom in on areas as small as the […]

The migration of data to North Bristol NHS Trust’s new VNA was Insignia’s largest and fastest migration to date, moving 300TB of medical imaging across to the new VNA. Data was processed at a rate of 11-12 million images a day and was completed in just five months. With COVID-19 impacting healthcare services, Insignia and […]

The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) has completed the first student exchange with University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (UiT). At the beginning of September Bridie Goodleff and Liam Hamilton set off from London Heathrow, on the journey to Tromsø in Arctic Norway where they would spend the next […]

Customers were able to have one-to-one sessions with Insignia’s application specialists. Last October, Insignia Medical Systems hosted its fifth annual National User Group Meeting, welcoming users to join in a day of knowledge-sharing and networking. Taking place at M-Shed Bristol, delegates from Insignia trusts across the UK met to network with other customers, listen to […]

ABS clinical director Dr Alexandra Valencia and consultant radiographer Gillian Clark. Avon Breast Screening (ABS) has extended its managed service contract with Insignia Medical Systems for five years.  ABS is one of the largest breast screening departments in the country and first signed with Insignia in 2010.  The programme is coordinated through the Avon Breast […]

PACS manager Sue Miller. North Bristol Trust has completed its latest upgrade of Fujifilm’s Synapse PACS.  Following installation in 2014, the trust has had the annual upgrades that Fujifilm provides to customers as an integral part of the service agreement.  Upgrades are completed with virtually zero down-time during weekends. PACS manager Sue Miller said: “The […]

Standing are Philips Healthcare managing director, UK and Ireland, Neil Mesher, project manager Cath Sellwood, and service district manager SW and Wales Aiden Jones, MRI lead superintendent radiographer Ann Case and radiology manager Bob Robson.  MRI radiographer Chris Rose and radiology assistant Katie Blackman.  Seated are superintendent radiographer Jo Robson, MRI radiographer Ash Majalady and […]