Maidstone Hospital

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Victoria Atkins has officially opened a community diagnostic centre during a visit to Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW). The West Kent Community Diagnostic Centre is near Maidstone Hospital and will enable thousands more patients to get faster access to tests including x-rays, CT, MRI, DXA […]

When a community diagnostic centre rented not one but two rental solutions for their facility. Some time ago, AGITO Medical delivered a CT relocatable rental unit to Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust in the United Kingdom. AGITO delivered one of its brand-new units featuring a state-of-the-art Aquilion Prime SP 160 slice system. This rental […]

Senior radiographer Richard Flood has become the first practising radiographer in the UK to complete the level 1 HCSE (Health Care Systems Engineering) qualification, according to Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust where he works. The HCSE qualification is a recognised international standard framework for Systems Engineering ISO/IEC 15288:2015. The application in health and social […]

The Kent and Medway Medical Imaging Consortium has procured a medical imaging system from Sectra to support faster diagnosis and earlier treatment, and to increase capacity to meet growing demand. Radiologists and other clinicians at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust and Medway NHS Foundation Trust will be […]

Chair of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust board David Highton, Maidstone PETCT centre unit manager Sharon Meadows, head of PETCT south Sally Albon and consultant radiologist Dr Alexis Corrigan. In partnership with Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust and the Kent Oncology Centre, Alliance Medical has helped provide the first purpose-built static PETCT centre […]

Nuclear medicine physicist Peter O’Sullivan, patient Don Wise and consultant Meeran Naji. A pilot at Maidstone Hospital providing targeted radionuclide therapy for patients with advanced prostate cancer has proved so successful that the service will now be rolled out across the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. The pilot of the radium service began at […]