DXA

A DMS Stratos DR scanner has been installed at Ellesmere Port Hospital, part of the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. It will provide high resolution DXA imaging, being used primarily for the assessment of bone mineral density and the diagnosis and management of osteoporosis and other metabolic bone diseases. Distributor Medray Group oversaw […]

Isle of Wight NHS Trust has installed a Hologic Horizon bone density scanner and reports that it is pleased with the system and the service provided by supplier Vertec Scientific. “Our DXA service is based in the new community diagnostic centre adjacent to St Mary’s Hospital here on the Isle of Wight,” a spokesperson for […]

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 […]

County Down’s Mourne Scan Clinic in Newry has partnered with supplier of integrated healthcare solutions Hospital Services Limited (HSL) to implement advanced diagnostic services at its newly-launched private health hub. The investment in imaging technologies includes a Hologic Horizon W DXA scanner and a Shimadzu Radspeed Fit x-ray system. Hologic’s Horizon DXA bone density scanner […]

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 […]