Elekta

Patients at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have become the first in the world to receive treatment on the latest version of the Gamma Knife, used for treating intracranial pathologies, including brain tumours. The Royal Hallamshire Hospital has installed the Elekta Esprit and the first patients were treated on February 7. The hospital is […]

NHS Supply Chain has supported the pilot of the Elekta ProKnow cloud-based software solution and now ordered licences for 50 NHS trust hospitals over three years as well as education and training. It follows an extensive phase of provider testing that enabled more than 20 radiotherapy centres in England to access, test and assess the […]

A grandfather of three has become the UK’s first lung cancer patient to benefit from Elekta MR-linac radiotherapy treatment at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. Barry Staniforth was treated using the equipment that performs real-time MR scans while x-ray beams target the tumour, making it more accurate and reducing side effects. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic […]

A Stockport woman is set to become the first patient in the world to be treated for cervical cancer entirely using state-of-the-art radiotherapy at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. Karen Hall, who lives in Offerton, will receive a full course of this radiotherapy delivered using the Elekta Unity MR-linac. Hall was diagnosed after going to […]

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has completed another phase of its plans to reconfigure and modernise its radiotherapy services. Following the establishment of new satellite centres in Eastbourne and Preston Park, the facilities at the main centre in Royal Sussex County Hospital have also been updated with the installation of two more Elekta […]

Earlier this year, I attended the Australian Society of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy (ASMIRT) 2019 conference in Adelaide, Australia, to give a presentation about my experience using the MR-linac at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey.  Elekta invited me to attend after seeing my NHS Twitter takeover last year, which coincided with […]

Elekta has completed an important phase in a large project at Cork University Hospital by delivering five linacs in five days. The successful project was the result of a team effort between Elekta, the Flegg’s rigging team and Cork University Hospital and involved several months of workshops, site inspections and careful planning. “A huge thank […]

James Cook University Hospital’s radiotherapy team is now using Elekta’s Clarity in its prostate treatment routine to improve image guidance for prostate radiotherapy. Consultant clinical oncologist Dr Darren Leaning, who treats urological and gynaecological malignancies, explained: “The use of Elekta’s Clarity system will ensure the precise and effective delivery of prostate radiotherapy for our patients, […]