Great Ormond Street Hospital

GOSH marks 25th anniversary of IR department

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 […]

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Great Ormond Street’s SPECT/CT promotes a calming environment

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 […]

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GOSH installs SPECT/CT suite for faster scanning

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 […]

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Bursary enables testing of ultrasound biopsies

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 […]

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GOSH’s dose saving needs met with biplane addition

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 […]

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Great Ormond Street achieves ISAS accreditation

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 […]

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