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NHS England – Midlands has provided £1.28 million funding to develop a new training model for the Midlands Imaging Training Academy (MITA) at County Hospital in Stafford, allowing one consultant to simultaneously train and supervise learners across all regional academy sites, giving other consultants more time to spend with patients. The new EPACS (electronics and […]

A Stoke-on-Trent couple are urging people to take up the offer of cancer screening services provided by University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) after they were diagnosed with cancer within four months of each other. Former UHNM healthcare assistant Kath Dean and her husband Michael, a former West Midlands Ambulance Service driver, were […]

United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust (ULHT) returned to Fujifilm to meet its latest x-ray needs. The company supplied its new FDR Visionary Suite with power assist that has made life a little easier for radiographers. ULHT has already received several Fujifilm systems and chose to continue working with the company due to its responsiveness and ability […]

Wye Valley NHS Trust and Royal Philips have finished a £2 million radiology service redevelopment programme. By significantly increasing imaging capacity and working with Philips through a managed services partnership, the trust has been able to reduce its diagnostic backlog caused by pressures from COVID-19, while also resuming normal service. In response to an increasing […]

County Hospital, Louth, has received an Achieva 1.5 dStream MRI scanner from Philips UKI. The purchase was the result of a long-running community fund-raising appeal, supplemented by United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, for the refurbishment of the building and additional equipment. MRI service lead Chris Bilton said: “We selected the Philips scanner on the grounds […]

The department of podiatric surgery at Wye Valley NHS Trust in Hereford is said to have pioneered the UK application of intra-operative x-ray C-arms operated by podiatric surgeons at work. The first system, a Fluoroscan Premier, was installed in 1999 followed by an InSight in 2006 that has now been replaced. In the last 20 […]

Senior radiographer Tom Blackman. Wye Valley NHS Trust has launched its x-ray services transformation programme as part of an 11-year radiology partnership with Royal Philips.   The trust went live with the Philips managed service agreement in April, and since then a number of new systems have been delivered to trust sites, including a new digital […]

Pictured at County Hospital in Pontypool with a Samsung GC85 DR room supplied by MIS Healthcare are MIS manager – Wales Mark O’Brien, superintendent radiographer Sue Rice, radiology services manager Mark Wilkes, radiography assistant practitioner Michelle Rodgers, senior radiographers Sue Dunne and Sue Gauntlett and MIS x-ray applications specialist Debbie Hallam.  The digital radiography system […]