Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s new community diagnostic centre (CDC) at Norwich Research Park has taken delivery of the Simple Up lift platform from Rothband (WSR Medical Solutions). The lift platform allows patients to be raised easily and safely to the best height for weight-bearing x-rays of lower limbs. From a very […]

Cancer patients undergoing treatment at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) and Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH) are benefiting from a type of  radiotherapy that reduces treatment time while increasing accuracy and patient comfort. Surface-guided radiotherapy (SGRT) is being offered to patients receiving radiotherapy treatment, and uses cameras to create […]

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital has opened its new PETCT centre to improve access to advanced cancer diagnostics for patients in the east of England. Working in partnership with Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Alliance Medical progressed the PETCT service on site from a mobile scanner to a specialist scanning centre in […]

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s (NNUH) urology team is said to be the first in the east of England and the fourth NHS hospital nationwide to offer a new, less invasive robotic treatment to men with enlarged prostates. NNUH urologists join their counterparts at Guy’s and St Thomas’, Royal Berkshire and Hampshire […]

Nearly three years after it opened, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital’s Norfolk Centre for Interventional Radiology (NCIR) team has treated its 6,000th patient. Michael Atkinson from Norwich visits the centre every 10 weeks to have his nephrostomy changed after having his bladder removed following bladder cancer in 2018. The team has developed a specific patient […]

Patients at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are now benefitting from a streamlined cone beam CT (CBCT) service. Previously, patients could be seen at the trust but then needed to be referred to London to receive examinations for maxillofacial surgery, otorhinolaryngology and cervical spine examinations. Patients not only faced a long journey […]

Technology that monitors blood pressure during surgery is having a major impact on patients with advanced ovarian cancer at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The device looks at the patient’s blood pressure, providing detailed information about their heart function. It also guides the theatre team in delivering more targeted fluid therapy during […]

Trainee radiologists from across Great Britain will have the opportunity to benefit from the expertise and guidance of a Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust consultant who has been awarded a travelling professorship. Consultant radiologist Professor Tom Marshall has received the accolade from The Royal College of Radiologists and British Society of Skeletal […]