New Cross Hospital

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 […]

Alliance Medical services the phase one and part of phase two NHS England national PETCT contract and is continuing to add capacity to its UK-wide network of scanning sites. In September last year it opened a PETCT centre in Newcastle at the Freeman Hospital, which was followed in November by a modular centre at Norfolk […]

New Cross Hospital, part of The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, has acquired a second Philips Brilliance Big Bore CT scanner to complement an existing scanner purchased in 2017. The equipment is installed in the radiotherapy department based at the Deanesly Centre, which has been extended to include an additional bunker and clinic facilities. Pre-treatment superintendent […]

Clinical ultrasound manager Sue Burford (centre) and her team with EasyPay Network’s Liam Milroy. Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust has worked with EasyPay Network to help achieve a substantial increase in revenue generated from maternity scan pictures.  Kiosks were installed in Cannock Chase Hospital and New Cross Hospital in June 2017 and, in the last six months of […]

Senior radiographer Monique Thomas, Wolverson X-ray sales manager Gurpal Matharu and senior radiographer Alistair Bardwell. The Heart and Lung Centre at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton has installed a Vision C x-ray system from Wolverson X-ray and a wireless digital detector, in a moderately small chest room. Cardiac catheter suite and interventional radiology superintendent radiographer […]

Philips UKI north-west and Midlands district general manager Michelle Atherton, senior radiographer Jonathan Smith, senior radiographer Khumbulari Ndlovu, Philips account manager imaging systems Sally Maclachlan, senior radiographer Natalie Bayliss, MRI advanced practitioner Penny Oliver, CT advanced practitioner Jane Crutchley, senior radiographer Steve Edwards and radiology group manager Stuart Simper. New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton has […]

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust reporting radiographer Benjamin Winton reviews images on Philips IntelliSpace PACS. Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, working with Impregilo, has received the latest IntelliSpace PACS and radiology information system solutions from Royal Philips and Soliton IT. Commenting on the installation, which went live in April, trust head of radiology Stuart Simper said: “This […]

To the left, standing, are Toshiba Medical Systems ultrasound clinical specialist Donna Holdcroft, receptionist Pauline O’Brien, clinical specialist sonographer Sara Westwood, assistant Elaine Boyle, clinical specialist sonographer Elaine Brooks and Toshiba ultrasound applications specialist Jackie Chambers.  Seated are assistant Deborah Merchant and ultrasound manager Sue Burford.  On the right, back row, are clinical specialist sonographer […]