St Luke’s Hospital

DXA scanner offers a new horizon in bone density assessment at St Luke’s Hospital

A £100,000 Hologic Horizon W system, which assesses the strength of patients’ bones and allows specialists to calculate their risk of fractures and osteoporosis, has been installed at St Luke’s Hospital, part of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. DXA section manager and clinical technologist Jane Threlkeld said: “The replacement of our previous DXA system […]

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Pennine Breast Service orders three mammography chairs from Rothband

Pictured following the delivery of a Mammography 2021 chair from Vela Medical to the Pennine Breast Service at St Luke’s Hospital, Bradford, are senior assistant practitioner Allison Helm, breast service manager Simon Peers and Rothband territory sales manager Tori Jones. The service has ordered three chairs with two going to the mobile units to assist […]

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Installation of three ultrasound platforms allows Bradford to develop services

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has acquired three Philips Epiq Elite ultrasound systems, two for use at Bradford Royal Infirmary and the third for St Luke’s Hospital. The machines at Bradford Royal Infirmary will be used for inpatients, including interventional procedures, whereas the machine at St Luke’s will be used mainly for OP MSK […]

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St Luke’s receives the UK’s first Planmed Verity

St Luke’s Hospital consultant musculoskeletal radiologist Dr David Wilson with Xograph Healthcare product manager Simon Pike. St Luke’s Hospital in Headington, Oxford, has received the first Planmed Verity mobile extremity scanner in the UK, from independent medical equipment supplier Xograph Healthcare. Consultant musculoskeletal radiologist Dr David Wilson said: “It is a very impressive piece of […]

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Dublin gets all-in-one system

Pictured recently at St Luke’s Hospital in Dublin are (from left)  senior mould room technician Bill Garrett, Vertec radiotherapy products sales manager Michael Davis, Orfit Industries md and ceo Steven Cuypers, acting head of radiotherapy department Maria Westhelle-Murphy and clinical specialist mould room services Mary Gleeson.   The occasion was the handover of an Orfit […]

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