Northern Ireland

Southern Health and Social Care Trust’s South Tyrone Hospital, Dungannon, Northern Ireland, installed a Philips CT 5300 system in April 2024, the first in the UK to do so, and after a year of use radiographers have praised the CT scanner’s specifications. It was procured to provide CT imaging for a regional rapid diagnosis centre […]

The Health and Social Care (HSC) service in Northern Ireland is to transform the way in which diagnostic services are delivered as it brings together millions of digital patient images in a single system, provided by Sectra. Called NIPACS+, the programme will see every trust across Northern Ireland break down silos of imaging information to […]

Health and Social Care (HSC) in Northern Ireland has successfully digitised pathology diagnostic images and reports into a medical imaging system that will help to future-proof diagnostics. The digital pathology project, which has been implemented by Business Services Organisation (BSO), is part of Northern Ireland’s PACS. Radiologists in the region already use the same PACS […]

Causeway Hospital in Coleraine, County Londonderry, part of Northern Health and Social Care Trust, has gone live with an Aquilion Prime SP CT scanner from Canon Medical UK. Situated near the emergency department, the system will provide trauma and out-of-hours related scanning and will support general and cardiac outpatient appointments. The transition to the new […]

The first AI-assisted CT system in Northern Ireland has been ordered by Causeway Hospital in Coleraine, County Londonderry, according to Canon Medical Systems UK. The system will strengthen radiology services and improve diagnostic waiting times for the population served by Northern Health and Social Care Trust. The Aquilion Prime SP CT will be situated in […]

Supplier of diagnostic equipment Hospital Services Limited (HSL) is sponsoring Queen’s University Belfast’s Ladies Rugby club in a partnership aimed at raising awareness of early detection of breast cancer in young women. HSL branding will feature on the rugby kits. Representatives from HSL and Queen’s launched the partnership by discussing the prevalence of breast cancer […]

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust’s orthopaedic service based at Musgrave Park Hospital provides a full range of elective orthopaedic procedures including joint replacement, spinal surgery and upper and lower limb surgery. The radiology department required a solution that would allow it to take single exposure long view images, improve efficiency and lower dose. “We […]

Craigavon Area Hospital in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, has received a Fujifilm FDR Go Plus mobile DR system. Lead radiographer Carl Marsh is impressed with the benefits that the new mobile x-ray system has delivered to his team and his patients: “The FDR Go Plus exceeds what is expected from a digital mobile,” he said. […]