DEXA

At this year’s UKIO Diagnostic Healthcare Limited says it will showcase its commitment to delivering high quality, patient-centred diagnostic services across the UK. With two decades of experience, the company provides mobile and static imaging solutions for NHS and private patients, supporting faster diagnoses and improved outcomes. The company will highlight its expanded services, including […]

Yeovil District Hospital, which is now part of the newly formed Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has, for the third time, chosen a Hologic DXA scanner supplied by Vertec Scientific based on the ‘excellent’ track record and customer support. The department performs a number of scans including bone densitometry, vertebral fracture assessment, single energy femur scans […]

April 2024 marked 20 years since Diagnostic Healthcare was established. Now one of the UK’s largest independent providers of imaging services to the NHS and private patients, the company says it has substantial experience of working across primary and secondary care sectors, supporting integrated care systems, NHS trusts and health boards with specialist imaging, reporting […]

A Hologic Horizon A DXA scanner has been supplied and installed by Vertec Scientific for Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, in its new sport and exercise science department at Oriam, Scotland’s national sports performance centre. The scanner will be used with Oriam’s partners for sport and exercise science research and to monitor the health of athletes. Associate […]

Midlands Metabolic Bone Centre’s DXA service based at Bradwell Community Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, is part of the Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. The service has had two Hologic Horizon systems supplied and installed by Vertec Scientific to replace its previous Hologic Discovery A scanners, which were 10 years old. Advanced clinical practitioner and DXA service […]

George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton has received a Carestream DRX Evolution Plus x-ray room and a Stratos DR DXA unit, installed by Medray UK. “Having an x-ray room within the outpatients department has completely transformed the orthopaedic service,” commented x-ray lead radiographer Hannah Toon. “The patients have benefitted in several ways; less distance to travel […]

The DXA team at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, part of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has received two Horizon DXA scanners from Vertec Scientific. The Horizon systems build on the capabilities of the Discovery model they replaced and allow the team to select a fast, high definition mode to detect vertebral fractures, using less radiation than […]

A £100,000 Hologic Horizon W system, which assesses the strength of patients’ bones and allows specialists to calculate their risk of fractures and osteoporosis, has been installed at St Luke’s Hospital, part of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. DXA section manager and clinical technologist Jane Threlkeld said: “The replacement of our previous DXA system […]