Kettering General Hospital

RPS Service is proud to announce the installation of a TrueView Core 100 Pro at KGH Breast Unit, which has benefitted a £250,000 refurbishment to support the 15,000 women it screens for cancer each year. The TrueView Core 100 Pro is used as a way of quickly checking if a breast biopsy sample has accurately […]

The fifth of 15 bespoke CT scanners and relocatable building units, designed and manufactured in the UK by Canon Medical Systems as part of NHS England’s COVID-19 recovery plan, has been delivered to Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The unit has been positioned in a car park outside A&E and is separate from the […]

Like many screening services around the country, Kettering General Hospital complied with government lockdown advice during the COVID-19 pandemic and made the decision to pause its National Health Service Breast Screening Programme for the health and safety of clients and colleagues. When lockdown restrictions began to ease, the team at Kettering immediately started to consider […]

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has replaced its CT scanner with a state-of-the-art Aquilion Prime SP 160 CT system from Canon Medical Systems.  In addition, the company supplied a software upgrade for a first generation Aquilion Prime CT scanner, installed in 2012.  The upgrade brings the original scanner in line with the functionality of […]

GE Healthcare’s Emma Jackson, consultant radiologist Dr Sana Pascaline, advanced practitioner Deborah Mapley, consultant radiologist Dr Mohamad Hajaj, assistant practitioner Luscia Conisbee, superintendent mammographer Deborah Black, senior radiographers Jill Hokan and Anne McClarence with GE Healthcare’s Trish Heath. Kettering General Hospital is offering digital breast tomosynthesis for eligible symptomatic and low to moderate risk family history […]

From left are staff nurse Sally Tilley, interventional radiologist Dr Vishy Acharya, radiographer Lucy Astle, interventional radiologist Dr David Walter, superintendent radiographer Rosalie Sheffield, lead radiology nurse Chandra Parmar, radiographer Robyn Cook, assistant Michelle Weaver, radiology manager Tracy Reid, Philips Healthcare Midlands account manager Natalie Parkin, general manager north Steve Cropper, team leader for customer […]

At Kettering General Hospital are superintendent radiographer Janet Mallott, cardiac physiologist Leanne Ivanoff, deputy superintendent radiographer Yasmin Hassim, cath lab nurse Nicola Clarke, assistant practitioner Alison Meaker, senior radiographer Lauren Curtis, cath lab nurse Rachel Holloway and senior cardiac physiologist Adam Miller with Philips Healthcare’s account manager Natalie Parkin, customer services team leader Phil Worville, […]

At Kettering General Hospital are CT/MR senior radiographer Martin Stapleton, CT/MR superintendent radiographer Zoe Saunders, Toshiba account executive Colin Pellow and CT/MR superintendent radiographer Graham Clark. Kettering General Hospital has acquired a Toshiba Aquilion Prime CT system to replace a 12-year-old four-slice scanner.  It is anticipated that the new equipment, which is one of two […]