Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

Staff and patients are benefiting from cutting-edge technology at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust where an average of 10,000 interventional procedures are performed within the general interventional suites. The Heartlands Treatment Centre opened in January 2023 and features several Philips systems, including two Azurion image-guided therapy systems with FlexArm. Following the service improvements seen at Heartlands […]

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, has installed three Carestream DRX Evolution Plus rooms, which were supplied by Medray UK. “Working with Karishma Pandya and Sam Parker during the installation of three new Carestream DRX Evolution Plus rooms has been brilliant. There was superb communication throughout the installation project as well as significant aftercare to ensure that […]

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB), part of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, is the first in the world to implement a Symbia Pro.specta SPECT/CT from Siemens Healthineers. Equipped with specialised clinical tools, low dose imaging and intuitive workflow, the Symbia Pro.specta is helping to expand services in the nuclear medicine department, including cardiology, neurology, […]

Cobalt’s vision is to pioneer innovation in medical imaging diagnosis by investing in equipment, integrated research and education, to improve outcomes for patients now and in the future. Cobalt Health is a medical charity, established in 1964. Each year it provides diagnostic imaging for over 115,000 patients through imaging centres in Cheltenham and Birmingham and […]

Earlier this year, the mould room at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham took delivery of a RapidHeat Oven, supplied by Oncology Imaging Systems (OIS), which quickly reaches working temperatures for heating Aquaplast RT and Fibreplast thermoplastics to reduce mask-making time. Chief technologist and mould room manager Jason Bode said of the department’s experience: “All in all, […]

The UK’s first 64-slice Veriton-CT64 SPECT/CT system, supplied by Link Medical, has been installed in the nuclear medicine department at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. Consultant clinical scientist and head of nuclear medicine Chris Boivin said: “We felt it was vital that the latest technology was available to our patients. The Spectrum Dynamics Veriton-CT64 system will […]

Xiel have worked very closely with Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in Birmingham to bring the benefits of the CIVCO Body Pro-Lok ONE system to the hospital, providing one simple solution for complex SBRT patient setups. The nature of abdominal compression meant that the QEH needed a solution that was robust enough to take pressure, but […]

Three Hologic Fluoroscan mini x-ray C-arm systems have supplied by Vertec Scientific to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.  For use in the operating theatre, the Fluoroscan was designed for the specialist hand and foot surgeon.   The platform features a flat detector system for high resolution, distortion-free image quality via a 75 micron array and 2K […]