Great Western Hospital

Envirotect has been working on behalf of DD Porter amidst the challenges of the pandemic to help Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Swindon install a Magnetom Sola from Siemens Healthineers. The addition of the scanner will help the hospital transition back to the usual demand for routine operations between the peaks of the […]

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Swindon has received a Magnetom Sola from Siemens Healthineers. The MR equipment was selected as part of NHS England’s investment scheme to ensure 55,000 more people survive cancer each year. The scanner arrived at Great Western Hospital at a critical time in the COVID-19 pandemic and is expected […]

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) has become one of the earliest UK adopters of a fully digitised cellular pathology department, having installed the Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution, including three Ultra Fast Scanners and one Ultra Versatile Scanner. OUH has digitised all surgical histology and referral slides within the cellular pathology department, which is […]

The breast centre at Great Western Hospital in Swindon offers a symptomatic service plus breast screening as part of the Wiltshire breast screening service. With two mobile and two static systems to be replaced, the team chose Hologic 3Dimensions mammography system for all four, with Hologic 3D Mammography on two systems. Breast centre manager Suzie […]

Standing are faculty members Dr Amit Parekh, Toshiba Medical Systems ultrasound applications specialist Mair Howe, Dr Nick Ridley, Dr Matt Jaring and Dr Lucy Hilder.  Seated are Dr Noor Ali and Dr Sarah Allsop. A pilot project jointly run by staff at the Centre for Applied Anatomy and radiology staff from local Bristol NHS trusts,was organised […]

Maternity support worker Lesley Pickering, midwifery sister Julie Edwards and midwives Barbara Cowie and Anne Baxter. Great Western Hospital’s day assessment unit has purchased a Toshiba Xario 200 ultrasound system to replace an older Toshiba scanner.  The Xario 200 is a versatile general purpose routine system that can handle high performance studies.  It is customised […]

Dr Anthony Allan with the X-Porte system. Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has purchased an X-Porte point-of-care ultrasound system from Fujifilm SonoSite to extend its ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia capabilities for orthopaedic surgery. Dr Anthony Allan, is a consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in regional anaesthesia.  He said: “We already had two SonoSite point-of-care […]

At Great Western Hospital are consultant orthopaedic surgeon David Williamson, Xograph Healthcare territory manager Liam Neill and orthopaedic team manager, theatres, Stuart Wade. Great Western Hospital, Swindon, is the designated trauma unit for two regional trauma networks, the Severn to the west and the Thames Valley to the north east and as part of these […]