Royal Hallamshire Hospital

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 […]

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has installed a Philips Ingenia Elition 3.0T X MRI system at Royal Hallamshire Hospital. The trust conducts approximately 56,000 MR scans annually, focusing on advanced neuro and musculoskeletal imaging. “The system streamlines our workflow and has significantly improved scan efficiency, allowing us to process more patients in less time,” […]

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been chosen to host a new government-funded national HealthTech Research Centre (HRC) network, which will support the development of innovations for care of conditions including cancer, mental health, neurodegeneration and dementia, ageing, respiratory disease and cardiovascular conditions. The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) HRC network […]

Kidney doctors and clinical scientists at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are using AI to better predict when a person’s kidneys might fail. Consultant nephrologist and clinical lead for genetics Professor Albert Ong, who has been using the tool in his specialist kidney clinic, said the software was six times faster than manual processes […]

A team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has received a double award nomination from HSJ Digital Awards 2023 for developing an AI tool that is able to spot heart damage in seconds. The technology, which was shown to have a high degree of accuracy when tested in a large trial involving 2,000 patient […]

The medical imaging team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust took to the court at the end of March to take part in a charity netball tournament. Radiographers, apprentices, sonographers, advanced practitioners and managers all came together to raise money for the Palestine and Syrian refugees, a cause that the trust’s radiographers have a […]

Professor and consultant in oral and maxillofacial pathology Professor Ali Khurram at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Sheffield has won the 2022 Golden Microscope Award. The Pathological Society gives the award in recognition of an excellent trainer who has made an outstanding contribution to the promotion of high quality training […]

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 […]