Data scientists and clinical researchers are to use brain scans from the Scottish population to build a software tool that they hope will be able to predict a person’s risk of dementia. The team of 20, from the universities of Edinburgh and Dundee, has approval to use a unique, large dataset made up of CT […]
Read MoreUniversity Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust has opened a ‘dementia-friendly’ x-ray room, following the advice of Admiral nurses who specialise in caring for dementia patients and their families in the NHS, care homes and hospices. The nurses were asked to advise in the selection of surroundings to create an environment that helps calm patients with […]
Read MoreSenior radiographers Agnes Gouveia and Tracey Tuskin with assistant radiographer Debbie Murphy. Poole Hospital’s radiology department has implemented several new methods to make x-ray examinations more comfortable for patients with dementia. These include booking in patients with dementia at less busy times, changing the patient’s clothes in the x-ray room rather than a separate room, thoroughly […]
Read MoreLeeds Teaching Hospitals PETCT Team: advanced radiographer practitioner Katrina Pitts, Dr Chirag Patel, team leader Karen Marshall, consultant radiologist Dr Andrew Scarsbrook, Dr Fahmid Chowdhury and radiographer assistant Cara Bolland. Two of Yorkshire’s healthcare providers have joined forces to bring highly accurate dementia testing to the region. The venture between Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust […]
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