Castle Hill Hospital

Research and treatment for cancer, dementia and heart disease is set to take a step forward after the handover of a £9 million molecular imaging facility at Castle Hill Hospital in East Yorkshire. At a ceremony to mark the occasion, renowned cancer research expert and chair of Radiotherapy UK Professor Pat Price said the significance […]

Radiotherapy treatment and planning scan facilities have been upgraded at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust with Halcyon radiotherapy systems from Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, and Somatom go.Open Pro CT systems from Siemens Healthineers. The introduction of the new equipment at Castle Hill Hospital marks the launch of an integrated approach to cancer care […]

A charity working to offer UK-leading detection and personalised treatment facilities for patients with cancer, heart disease and dementia has unveiled its new facilities at the £8.8 million Molecular Imaging Research Centre. Chair of the Daisy Appeal charity Professor Nick Stafford was joined by GE Healthcare project manager Lars-Olof Arlasjö on a tour of the […]

A charity that is working to develop ‘dose-on-demand’ radiotracers to enable improved detection and personalised treatment for patients with cancer, heart disease and dementia has taken a major step towards its goal with the delivery of PETCT scanning and research equipment to Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham. Founder and chair of the Daisy Appeal Professor Nick […]

SPECTra, a modular radiopharmacy laboratory information management system (LIMS), has been chosen by four UK SPECT facilities. It has been designed to improve efficiency while maintaining regulatory compliance at all stages of the SPECT radiopharmacy production workflow. The Christie in Manchester was the first site in the UK to choose SPECTra as its LIMS software, […]

Greater diagnostic accuracy in detecting significant prostate cancer using the Aplio i700 ultrasound system with Smart Fusion application has been reported following a four-year clinical evaluation at Castle Hill Hospital, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The Smart Fusion imaging application from Canon Medical Systems UK enables the accurate targeting of prostate biopsies by merging […]

Castle Hill Hospital, part of Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, has replaced a ten-year-old 40-slice CT system with a Canon Medical Systems Aquilion One Genesis Edition scanner. This is the second Canon CT scanner to be installed at the hospital. The first system, an Aquilion Prime installed in 2017, was delivered with cardiac software. […]

Siemens Healthcare molecular imaging manager, north west Euorpe, Lawrence Foulsham, Siemens md Peter Harrison, Alliance Medical business development director David Loasby, Baroness Virginia Bottomley, Daisy Appeal founder Professor Nick Stafford and Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust director of business development and strategy David Haire. Former health secretary and sheriff of Hull, Baroness Virginia […]