Royal Preston Hospital

Paula Veevers and Alan Howson (right) with Charlie’s grandfather Chris Dawson and mother Emma Jordan. A week after completing a gruelling fun run, the Charlie’s SuperHero HellRunners team were almost fully recovered, reports Paula Veevers, diagnostic radiographer in general x-ray and CT at Royal Preston Hospital.  The team took part in support of colleague and […]

Sonographers Pauline Doherty and Diane Cousins. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has installed two EasyPay Network payment kiosks in its antenatal ultrasound departments.  The kiosks installed in Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble District General Hospital allow patients to purchase their baby scan pictures. Sonographer Diane Cousins said: “We were really happy […]

Toshiba Medical Systems ultrasound account manager Lynn Parkington, ultrasound applications specialist Louise Higgins and renal physician Dr Aimun Ahmed. Royal Preston Hospital, Lancashire, has replaced an existing scanner from Toshiba Medical Systems in its renal unit with the company’s Xario 100 ultrasound system. Renal physician Dr Aimun Ahmed said: “We selected the Xario 100 for […]

GE Healthcare point-of-care ultrasound clinical applications specialist Laura Brereton, hospital divisional procurement manager Gareth Pashley, clinical equipment manager Ivan Haskell, clinical procurement manager Andrea Hawkes, consultant anaesthetist and equipment lead for anaesthesia Dr Tony Adams, consultant anaesthetist and clinical director for anaesthesia Dr Anna Bewlay and GE Healthcare point-of-care ultrasound specialist Jon Robinson. Royal Preston […]

Consultant radiologist Dr Simon Beardmore, chairman of the local support group of the National Osteoporosis Society Marion Fogarty, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Karen Partington, clinical manager, imaging Caroline Mee, specialist radiographer Alison Worthington and Med Imaging Dexa technical specialist Peter Kent-Baldwin. Lancashire Teaching Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust is reported to be the […]

Senior radiographer Paul Hart, radiography assistant Cath Pickering, senior radiographer James Murphy, MIS account manager Phil Jones, clinical manager Caroline Mee, specialist radiographer Nicola Nelson and MIS applications specialist Caryn Carroll. Royal Preston Hospital has received three Samsung XGEO GC80 DR general x-ray rooms, installed by MIS Healthcare, that represent a single-step switch from CR […]

Demonstrating how to use the O-Scan are specialist neuro radiographers Adam Willetts and Christine Rosney. Royal Preston Hospital, part of the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has invested in Esaote’s O-Scan compact MRI unit for extremities scanning. General manager of the trust’s imaging directorate and medical illustration department Russell Dineley said: “We have two […]

Pictured at the Rosemere Cancer Centre are Vertec RT product specialist Michael Davis, radiographer Clare Watson and technical development radiographer Darran Kellett. The occasion was the follow-up after the biggest order for Klarity vacuum cushion immobilisation devices ever received by Vertec RT, a division of Vertec Scientific.  Kellet said “We are confident that this supply of […]