Manchester Royal Infirmary

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust has installed a series of C-arms, interventional imaging, mobile x-ray and ultrasound equipment. The upgrades form part of more than 350 installations scheduled over a 15-year partnership with Siemens Healthineers. The Value Partnership that began in March last year manages the trust’s imaging equipment to ensure it keeps pace with […]

Manchester Royal Infirmary received the world’s first Biograph Vision PETCT system from Siemens Healthineers and scanned its first patient on it in autumn last year.  The systems allows greater accuracy in the imaging and staging of patients to maintain efficient and sustainable care. Acting directorate manager of the Nuclear Medicine Centre Andy Bradley said: “The […]

During October and November last year Fujifilm delivered CPD Now presentations accredited by the College of Radiographers to more than 300 radiology professionals across the UK.  Across six weeks the team visited 12 hospitals and ran 24 sessions, covering a total of 1,730 miles from Portsmouth to Inverness. “We understand how difficult it can be […]

Sonographer Omobola Shehu, superintendent sonographer Lynn Kenderdine, sonographer Holly Barlow, RDA’s Lewis Fouracre and Martin Wilkinson, sonographer Charlotte Hudson and Hitachi Medical Systems UK clinical application specialist Ann Harvey. Manchester Royal Infirmary’s ultrasound department has installed an additional Hitachi Hi Vision Ascendus ultrasound platform equipped with contrast harmonic imaging and shear wave elastography to complement an […]

Fujifilm sales specialist John Casson with student radiographer Wendy Reid and emergency and outpatient departments principal radiographer Jon Kitching. Manchester Royal Infirmary is now able to use its existing CR rooms for DR, since the installation of an FDR D-Evo G35i flat panel detector from Fujifilm. Emergency and outpatient departments principal radiographer Jon Kitching said: […]

Hitachi Medical Systems clinical application specialist Ann Harvey, superintendent sonographer Lynn Kenderdine, RDA Paul McKenzie, locum sonographer Luke Howland and RDA Sue Hopkins. Manchester Royal Infirmary’s radiology department has chosen a Hitachi Ascendus ultrasound platform complement its two existing Hitachi Preirus machines, ensuring probe cross-compatibility and continuity.  With dynamic contrast harmonic Imaging, wide view options […]

With a trauma bag from Terumo UK are staff nurse Le Xu, radiology sister Elaine McKnight and assistant practitioner Jackie Greenhalgh. Terumo UK’s endovascular division has worked with Salford Royal and Manchester Royal Infirmary, two of the centres in the Greater Manchester Major Trauma Centre Collaborative, to create a method to ensure essential equipment is […]

Football player Patrick Vieira cuts the ribbon to unveil a ceiling-mounted Artis zee from Siemens Healthcare. Manchester Royal Infirmary had help from a World Cup winning footballer to unveil the latest imaging technology in its interventional radiology suite. Manager of the reserves squad at Manchester City FC Patrick Vieira cut the ribbon to reveal technology […]