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Consultant respiratory physician Dr She Lok with QEII’s SonoSite NanoMaxx. The portability and ease of use of SonoSite’s NanoMaxx point-of-care ultrasound systems are said to have enhanced management of pleural effusions at the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital (QEII) in Welwyn Garden City.   Consultant respiratory physician Dr She Lok said: “Because this service can be […]

Consultant breast surgeon Peter Crane. The Vicki Adkins Breast Unit at Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Welwyn Garden City is now using three SonoSite M-Turbo point-of-care ultrasound systems.   Consultant breast surgeon Peter Crane said: “We relied on three older instruments to supplement the service we received from radiology and needed to upgrade.  Through the […]

Accuray’s medical physics manager EMEA Leonard Wee, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham principal clinical scientist, radiotherapy physics, Jane Rogers and head of radiotherapy physics Graham Chalmers. Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham has taken delivery of the UK’s first two TomoTherapy TomoHDs.  The first installation took place in August in a renovated bunker previously considered too small for […]

Celebrating the anniversary of an MES agreement between Toshiba Medical Systems and Queen Elizabeth Hospital are, standing, MES manager Bob Raff, medical engineer Macheria Gakuru, MES general manager Jim Milburn and medical engineers John Tadman and Farhan Baig.  Seated are team administrator Jill Highland and medical engineer Keratiloe Moyo.   Toshiba Medical Systems has celebrated […]

During  a follow up-visit by Hologic to Queen Elizabeth Hospital are superintendent radiographer Tina Lucie-Smith, trainee mammographer Laura Taylor, assistant practitioner Marilyn O’Connell and Hologic breast health sales specialist Kevin Owens. Provision of breast disease screening at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kings Lynn, has grown with the acquisition of three Hologic Dimensions 2D digital systems as […]

At the Queen’s Medical Centre, on the left hand side of table, are Philips Healthcare UK district operations manager Ian Mitcham and customer service account manager Jason Walker, both of central and west region, University Hospitals Nottingham NHS Trust chief executive Peter Homa, special radiographers Janice Hunter and Tim Puzey, acting head of radiology services […]

Queen Elizabeth Hospital midwife sonographer Sonia Bailey and a new Aplio MX.   A Toshiba Aplio MX has joined two existing Aplio scanners in the maternity unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead.  Alongside its image quality and post-processing options, the Aplio MX version shares its core imaging architecture as well as its transducers with the […]

On the left are Philips key account manager Ian Mitcham and managing director UK and Ireland John Atwill, with IXR/DXR business manager Alex McFarlane, trust group manager, imaging and medical physics Paul Brettle, Philips IXR/DXR technical support specialist Richard Healey, superintendent radiographer Mandy Baker, superintendent radiographer – MRI Beverley Hudson, director of operations – Division […]