Northampton General Hospital

Helen Foster of Hackenthorpe is one of the first patients in South Yorkshire to benefit from a treatment to remove clots from the blood vessels in her lungs. Mechanical thrombectomy uses a novel medical device to physically suck blood clots out from the lung. Foster started to struggle with breathlessness and mobility problems a few […]

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been chosen to host a new government-funded national HealthTech Research Centre (HRC) network, which will support the development of innovations for care of conditions including cancer, mental health, neurodegeneration and dementia, ageing, respiratory disease and cardiovascular conditions. The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) HRC network […]

Kidney doctors and clinical scientists at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are using AI to better predict when a person’s kidneys might fail. Consultant nephrologist and clinical lead for genetics Professor Albert Ong, who has been using the tool in his specialist kidney clinic, said the software was six times faster than manual processes […]

Superuser Vicky Rogers, radiographers Ben Elstob and Emily Manu, Samsung account manager Tony Rogers, general superintendent Liz Page and senior radiographer Tari Gandari. Northampton General Hospital has completed the installation of the first of a pair of Samsung GC85 DR x-ray suites supplied by MIS Healthcare.  General superintendent Liz Page explained that she and her […]

Mould room manager Matthew York with Vertec Scientific product specialist David White. Vertec Scientific has supplied Northampton General Hospital’s radiotherapy department with a Klarity dry oven.  The department is part of one of the largest specialist radiotherapy treatment facilities in the UK. Mould room manager Matthew York said: “The oven gives us greater flexibility to […]

Vertec product specialist David White with mould room manager Matthew York. Northampton General Hospital’s radiotherapy department has joined with the centre at University Hospital Leicester and is part of one of the largest specialist radiotherapy treatment facilities in the UK. Vertec has supplied four standard Klarity Optek boards to Northampton General plus a special acrylic […]

Unit manager Rui Melo, PETCT clinical services director Mary McKee, Northampton General Hospital consultant radiologist and ARSAC license holder Dr Neil Fairlie, Alliance Medical UK director Philip Webster, hospital consultant radiologist Dr Ki Yap, Alliance Medical regional managing director – north Mark Chapman and regional managing director – south Russell Trenter. Northampton PETCT Centre is […]

With Imaging Equipment Limited’s Phil Neale (third from left) are Northampton General Hospital’s Andrew Blackmore, Stuart Duggleby and clinical scientist Debbie Holmes. Northampton General Hospital has begun a £5 million radiotherapy replacement programme with the first of three TrueBeam systems from Varian Medical Systems that will be backed up by a range of quality assurance […]