Queen’s Medical Centre

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) has become the first site in the UK to install a fully integrated imaging platform, combining the breakthrough Naeotom Alpha photon-counting CT system from Siemens Healthineers with laser guided intervention software – two advanced technologies featuring a new type of high-resolution imaging with rapid acquisition times. Funded by the […]

The breast screening department at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has added another five Vela mammography chairs to its existing fleet. Vela says that staff were so pleased to receive the new chairs they stopped their lunchbreak in order to help wheel them in. Specialist radiographer and lead mammographer Vickie Sanderson commented: “We just all […]

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a 10-year QA Pilot contract for its radiotherapy department including six linacs, brachytherapy, superficial, CT and contact rooms. Supplied by Oncology Imaging Systems (OIS), QA Pilot is a cloud-based, centralised software solution designed to make managing QA easier and to optimise workflow for faster organisation of data. “For […]

Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has acquired a Philips MR-OR intraoperative MRI system. It is being used as a dedicated paediatric MR scanner and, by incorporating Philips’ KittenScanner and Ambient Experience, is helping children undertake MR examinations without general anaesthesia. MR-OR is an integrated solution for the Philips Elition X […]

Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC), part of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, has acquired a Philips Ingenia 1.5T MRI scanner. The replacement scanner joins an existing Ingenia 1.5T system already in use at the centre. QMC covers the Nottingham area with a population of a million. It is also a regional neuro, cardiac and spinal centre […]

Canon Medical Systems ultrasound applications specialist Jackie Chambers, paediatric radiographers Angela Staley and Vanessa Waspe, consultant paediatric radiologist Dr Katharine Halliday and paediatric radiographers Lauren Padgett and Clare Cormell. The paediatric radiology department at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, has installed a Canon Medical Systems Aplio i800 ultrasound system in its purpose-built […]

Modality manager for CT Jacquie Daft, senior radiographer James Waddoups and agency radiographer Victoria Giles. Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust (NUH) has replaced all contrast injectors in its CT department with Ulrich CT Motion contrast injectors.  Five injectors have been installed, two at the City Hospital site and three at Queen’s Medical Centre, providing a […]

Queen’s Medical Centre advanced practitioner of ultrasound J P Mayes with Siemens Healthcare regional sales manager Peter Downing. As part of a system overhaul, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has installed six Acuson S1000 ultrasound systems from Siemens Healthcare in its hospitals. Three of the systems are being used at City Hospital, with the other […]