Elekta

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is celebrating a significant milestone in care as its National Centre for Stereotactic Radiosurgery marks 40 years of delivering Gamma Knife radiation treatments. Based at Royal Hallamshire Hospital, the centre made medical history in 1985 when it became the first centre in the UK, and the third in the […]

Cancer care specialist GenesisCare’s Nottingham centre has reopened after a refurbishment that includes an Elekta Evo linac. The system provides precision radiotherapy treatment with advanced imaging and motion management, minimising the potential of damage to healthy tissue. It will be used for treating patients with many types of cancer, including brain, lung, breast and prostate, […]

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 […]