Leicester

De Montfort University, Leicester, has developed a new Diagnostic Radiography BSc (Hons) programme and needed an x-ray system that would deliver both manual operation and full state-of-the-art automation. The clinical and estates teams worked together to ensure that they chose the most appropriate equipment for the needs of the students and the best value solution […]

Trainee assistant practitioner Simon Rodman, radiographer Vicky Lyons, student radiographer Rory Tymon with Althea’s Francesca Evans and MIS Healthcare account manager Tony Rogers. Glenfield Hospital, part of University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, has received the third and fourth of its planned Samsung GC85 DR x-ray rooms as part of a managed service contract with […]

MIS account manager – Midlands Tony Rogers, radiology site manager Nick Clark, senior radiographer Amanda Douglas, deputy superintendent radiographer Lucy Lewis, MIS account manager – north Phil Jones and Asteral chief technologist Francesca Evans. University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has partnered with Asteral to install the first of four digital x-ray rooms at Glenfield […]

At the handover of a Hitachi Arietta V60 to a busy pelvic floor clinic at Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, is consultant radiologist Dr Vikas Shah and Hitachi Medical Systems regional sales manager Tom Dolton. The specialist endo-anal clinic and radiology department at Glenfield Hospital has installed the ultrasound system to address its extensive range of examinations, […]

Chief technologist Rachel Hodgkinson, specialist sister Lisa Ross, specialist nurse Katie Nelson, radiology service manager Judy Gilmore and medical physicist David Monk with Asteral’s implementation manager Lloyd Stewart and implementation project manager Arun Upil. As part of its managed equipment service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) has had a D-SPECT cardiac imaging system […]

With the UHL gamma camera are (from left) nuclear medicine technician Charlotte Surridge, assistant technical officer Patrick Harper, chief nuclear medicine technician Sharon McMahon, head of nuclear medicine Claire Greaves, UHL equipment and contracts manager Ernie Thompson, Asteral operations manager – Leicester Robert Mason and Asteral general manager – Leicester Darren Woolley.   During the […]

Asteral managing director Mike Dix with business development director Sean Williams, operations director David Cook, scientific and technical director Stephen Hodgson and finance director Tim Beechey-Newman.   The Sunday Times FastTrack 100 league table has rated Asteral as the 38th fastest growing company in the UK in 2008/09 for the second consecutive year.   Asteral’s […]

Pictured from left are Leicester NHS Trust clinical director of imaging services Dr Shona Campbell, InHealth national primary care and NHS development manager Anthony Chapman and Leicester NHS Trust imaging services general manager Nicola Leighton-Davies.   Leicester’s hospitals, in partnership with InHealth, have expanded their local community MRI service.  Previously, patients needing scans had to […]