Portsmouth

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has expanded its symptomatic and breast screening services with the installation of five Mammomat Revelation mammography systems from Siemens Healthineers, across community and hospital settings. Covering Queen Alexandra Hospital and Oak Park Community Clinic, the trust now benefits from features designed to overcome diagnostic challenges, enabling accessible screening for all demographics […]

A consortium of NHS trusts around the south coast of England has signed its second deal this year with imaging technology provider Sectra in order to improve sharing and access to diagnostic imaging. A shared multimedia archive will also allow the trusts to accelerate ambitions for initiatives including AI. Known as SWASH, the consortium includes […]

Consultant rheumatologist at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust Dr Ernest Wong has purchased Esaote’s MyLab 9 eXP ultrasound system to help develop ultrasound examinations of the temporal artery for giant cell arteritis in the south-west region. Dr Wong selected the MyLab 9 eXP for its new 24MHz probe, which is said to provide excellent Doppler sensitivity […]

RDA Lois Davis, radiographer Robin Thapa, CT cardiac lead radiographer Ben Ridge and RDA Emma White. Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth has now equipped all three of its CT rooms with Ulrich CT Motion contrast injectors from Synapse Medical. “The first injector was installed in January 2016 and the benefits in terms of cost savings […]

Philips UKI customer support engineer Josh Souber, radiographer Daniel Edden, senior radiographer Trevor Smith, superintendent radiographer Lynn Butson, Philips UKI account manager Barry Heathcote, clinical scientist Sandra Hopkins, senior radiographer Will Davies, clinical scientist Matthew Daniel and radiographer Grant Wilson-Brodie. Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth has purchased two Philips Veradius Unity mobile C-arms as replacement […]

Synapse Medical commercial manager Bernard O’Brien, CT/MRI superintendent Nicola Wragg, Ulrich Medical international account manager Michael Muhl and Synapse Medical diagnostic imaging sales specialist Kevin Byard. Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth has installed an Ulrich CT Motion, supplied by Synapse Medical UK, in its new CT suite. CT/MRI superintendent Nicola Wragg said: “We chose the […]

Lecturers and delegates at the Toshiba bowel ultrasound clinics day. Toshiba Medical Systems sponsored a one-day course entitled ‘Toshiba bowel ultrasound clinics’ organised by Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust.  The course was designed for hands-on and live scanning and offered small group teaching of two to three delegates in an outpatient setting.  The number of attendees was […]

Delegates at Bowel Ultrasound Masterclass, Portsmouth. Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust recently hosted the first Bowel Ultrasound Masterclass run in collaboration with Toshiba Medical Systems.  The faculty consisted of trust consultant GI radiologist Dr Antony Higginson and consultant GI radiologist Dr Richard Beable, Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust consultant histopathologist Dr David Cowlishaw, University Hospital […]