Great Ormond Street Hospital

In June, the interventional radiology (IR) department at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) in London celebrated its 25-year anniversary. Although some procedures were being delivered by staff from GOSH and The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery next door, it was not until July 1999 that a formal IR service was established. The […]

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, is deploying an enterprise imaging solution, including a PACS, from Sectra. Staff will be able to analyse images in new ways and the solution is expected to improve efficiency, open up new possibilities around AI and allow specialists to share their expertise more easily beyond […]

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust has installed a Symbia Intevo Bold SPECT/CT from Siemens Healthineers. The scanning room at GOSH helps to promote a calm and relaxing atmosphere in order to improve the patient experience and help children to stay still during scans. Colour changing LED lights, a sound system and […]

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) has installed a new SPECT/CT suite in its nuclear medicine department.  A Symbia Intevo Bold SPECT/CT from Siemens Healthineers has been installed along with a Medrad injector pump system for contrast-enhanced SPECT/CT studies. The scanner’s improved CT capabilities mean faster imaging times and it also acts as a […]

Siemens Healthineers managing director Peter Harrison and Dr Susan Shelmerdine. Dr Susan Shelmerdine from Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, has been presented with a BIR/Siemens Healthineers research bursary to allow her to carry out feasibility testing of post-mortem ultrasound-guided core biopsies in the setting of perinatal death investigation. The £1,000 award provides pilot funding for […]

At Great Ormond Street Hospital are Toshiba Medical Systems account executive Stephen Whale, cardiac nurses Hanna Zwimferis and Simon Kelliher, consultant cardiologist Dr Henning Clausen, cardiac nurse Kate Begley, consultant cardiologist Dr Graham Derrick and cardiac nurse Andrew Beckingham. Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has purchased a Toshiba Infinix-i biplane system that will be used […]

With the certificate from UKAS are, from left, Society and College of Radiographers chief executive Richard Evans, RCR president Dr Jane Barrett, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust chief executive Dr Jane Collins, Great Ormond Street Hospital consultant paediatric radiologist Dr Melanie Hiorns and UKAS chief executive Paul Stennett.   The Great Ormond […]