Medway Maritime Hospital

Medway NHS Foundation Trust has adopted the ZedScan diagnostic medical device to improve the diagnosis of cervical cancer and pre-cancer in women referred to its colposcopy clinics at Medway Maritime Hospital in Kent. Using electrical impedance spectroscopy technology, ZedScan is used to detect cervical abnormalities before they develop into cancer. Lead clinician for the colposcopy […]

The Cancer Services Team at Medway NHS Foundation Trust has been named south-east regional winner at the NHS Parliamentary Awards 2022 in the ‘excellence in healthcare’ category. Based at Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham, the team scooped the award after being nominated by local MP Rehman Chishti, following significant improvements that saw the trust achieve […]

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 […]

Rheumatologists Professor Yasser El-Miedany and Dr Amjad Jilani have purchased two Esaote MyLab X7s for a new service within a community setting, offering the Dartford and Medway area of Kent fast access to MSK/rheumatology services. This service follows the model Professor El-Miedany set up in the Dartford, Grave-sham and Swanley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and […]

Deputy general imaging Emma Gould, radiographer Laura Baker, head of imaging Lorraine Becconsall, radiographer Daniel Mitrea, deputy general imaging Paramjit Beebeejaun, Fujifilm account manager Craig Burrows, assistant practitioner Sheila Curtis, radiographer Bidya Rai and Fujifilm senior account manager Iain Sims. Medway Maritime Hospital’s new A&E department is in the final phase of development, and the […]

Synapse Medical’s commercial manager Bernard O’Brien, CT service lead Laura Shell and advanced CT practitioner radiographer Malcolm Brown. Medway Maritime Hospital’s CT department has upgraded its equipment with two Ulrich CT Motion contrast injectors.   With increased patient throughput in the department, the hospital in Gillingham, Kent, chose the Ulrich CT Motion for its increased patient […]

At Medway Maritime Hospital are Vertec product specialist Bill Reid, staff nurses Lesley Stewart and Jenny Barton with clinical nurse specialist Gwen Worcester. A Hologic QDR4500 installed at Medway Maritime Hospital in 1996 has been upgraded to yield diagnostic information beyond BMD, with hip structural analysis (HSA) software that enables structural assessment of the upper […]

At the Maidstone handover of Philips equipment are assistant practitioner Michelle Allen, QA superintendent Kath Coombes, mammographer Jane Moore, Philips commercial manager women’s healthcare Neil Emery and mammography specialist Donna Webb. Kent breast screening service has updated its screening provision with MicroDose FFDM systems and now uses this Philips technology across the region in all […]