Discovery A

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 […]

Pictured during a follow-up visit to the radiology department of Manchester Royal Infirmary following the installation of a Hologic Discovery A DXA system with Apex 4 software, are Vertec product specialist Bill Reid, bone densitometry radiographers Imelda Hodgkinson and Joanne Anderson, clinical lead radiographer Jeanette Ryder and consultant and honorary professor of diagnostic radiology Professor […]

Pictured at a follow up visit to the osteoporosis centre at Southampton General Hospital are clinical technologists Rebecca Bosson, Claire Burvill and Alison Beaumont, clinical scientist and head of osteoporosis service Pat Taylor, department administrator Judith Bullard and Vertec product specialist Bill Reid. University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust has been using Hologic systems supplied […]

On a post-installation visit to the new Cromer and District Hospital, Vertec Scientific’s product specialist Bill Reid (left) finds out how staff are getting along with a Hologic Discovery A DXA scanner.  With him are radiology planned services lead Kathy Robinson-Fitt, radiology service manager Myra Knight, Cromer lead Janet Skeates and DXA lead Helen Duncan. […]

At a follow-up visit to a Hologic Discovery A installation by Vertec Scientific at Addenbrooke’s Hospital radiology department are, from left, secretary Helen Bartram, osteoporosis specialist nurse Jill Barker, Vertec product specialist Bill Reid, assistant practitioner Gill Doyle, appointments clerk Sarah Martin, radiographer Margot Sargent, receptionist Linda Garner, medical technical officer Mary Adams, operations manager […]