Leicester General Hospital

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has praised the benefits of a ceiling-mounted Alphenix Sky+ interventional imaging system, six months on from becoming the first location in the UK to receive the equipment from Canon Medical Systems. Located at Leicester General Hospital, the system’s 270° C-arm rotation around the table gives flexibility for patient access […]

Medical equipment service provider Althea and its majority shareholder have announced the commitment of over £100,000 in charitable donations to support the COVID-19 relief efforts of four NHS charities. The donations will provide aid to NHS staff working on the front line, enabling access to food, essential supplies and equipment, and ensuring they can safely […]

Leicester General Hospital has received the UK’s first Alphenix Sky + system from Canon Medical Systems. The system was installed in the hospital’s new interventional suite by managed service provider Althea. The hospital’s clinical team and Althea’s technology team undertook an official procurement exercise last year to look at all the interventional systems on the […]

Leicester General Hospital has received a C-arm imaging table from Wolverson X-ray to replace an old table that had served the hospital well for many years. Wolverson arranged a loan of its demonstration table to bridge the period between ordering and delivery. The new Stille Medstone table is designed to give the maximum unobstructed imaging […]

The team from Leicester General Hospital pictured with Lloyd Stewart from Althea (ninth from left) and account manager for MIS Healthcare Tony Rogers (far left). Leicester General Hospital (LGH) has worked with Althea and Samsung, through University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust’s vendor-independent managed service, to replace all of its plain x-ray rooms.  Samsung has […]

The team from Leicester General Hospital with Lloyd Stewart and Robert Mason from Althea and account manager for MIS Healthcare Tony Rogers (far right) with a new Samsung GC85. Leicester General Hospital has worked with Althea and Samsung Healthcare through University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust’s vendor-independent managed service to replace all of its plain […]

At Leicester General Hospital are Toshiba Medical Systems account executive Nichola Baron, applications specialist Heather Dring, senior radiographers Pepsi Magondo and Malany Kalicharan and radiology department assistants Colleen Griffiths, Jo Glover and Tom Walters. Toshiba Medical Systems has supplied two CXL 128 CT scanners to University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust as part of an […]