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The first patients have been scanned at the £15 million radiology facility at Cannock’s Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC). The purpose-built modular building is part of The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and hosts the first of four scanners: two CT and two MRI systems costing around £1 million each. The facility will employ 70 new staff […]

Every day, a diverse patient population presents unique imaging challenges to CT departments all over the country. North Devon District Hospital’s CT department understand this and recently made the decision to upgrade their CT injector to Bayer’s Medrad Centargo to help face these challenges. Individualising protocols for every patient’s scan has in the past been […]

Ipswich Hospital were one of the eight trusts nationally that installed a brand new Bayer Medrad Centargo CT injection system during its controlled commercial release in 2020.  Emma Smith, CT lead radiographer explains their early experience: “As a department our experience with Centargo has been exceptional from the very start. Having the opportunity to change […]

Radiotherapy is a highly effective local anti-cancer treatment delivered to around 50-60 per cent of cancer patients.  Installation of the Bayer-Medrad contrast injector on The Christie’s Unity MR linear accelerator (believed to be a world first) will allow the radiotherapy team to administer contrast agent to aid in tumour and organ at risk (OAR) visualisation […]

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) has installed a new SPECT/CT suite in its nuclear medicine department.  A Symbia Intevo Bold SPECT/CT from Siemens Healthineers has been installed along with a Medrad injector pump system for contrast-enhanced SPECT/CT studies. The scanner’s improved CT capabilities mean faster imaging times and it also acts as a […]

Lynne Collins has become country head for the UK and Ireland at Bayer Radiology. Collins started with Medrad in 2006 as a sales specialist and continued to work with the radiology portfolio when Medrad joined Bayer in 2012, taking clinical manager and sales manager roles.  Her previous career in radiography positions at hospitals in the […]

HSL territory manager Michael Leonard, radiology services manager Evelyn Smyth, MRI clinical lead Marie McMullan and Bayer radiology sales and clinical support manager Europe Frederik Jakobsen. The Galway Clinic in Western Ireland has again chosen Hospital Services Limited to supply its MRI injector.  The clinic is a state-of-the-art hospital that provides 24-hour healthcare services. Radiology […]

Bayer clinical specialist Martin Machalewski, CT account manager Phil Baker, MRI account manager Elsy Keniry, LycaHealth chief operations manager Mark Judge, senior radiographers Dennis Salandanan, and James Bathala, LycaHealth ceo Dr Manpreet Gulati, director Sen Kandiah, administrator Joel Greene, senior radiographer Deepa O’Riordan and administrator Isabella Granger. LycaHealth, a new private diagnostic and consultative outpatient […]