Royal Cornwall Hospital

In recent years, hospitals across Europe have struggled with access to technetium-99, due to reactor supply issues and logistical difficulties. Endomag says a single-injection, non-radioactive lymphatic tracer called Magtrace can provide hospitals greater flexibility for sentinel node biopsies. Magtrace, an iron oxide-based solution, is injected into the breast before migrating to the sentinel lymph nodes. […]

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust held a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the completion of a 12-month equipment replacement and upgrade project for its dedicated breast cancer centre. The Mermaid Centre is now equipped with three Mammomat Revelation mammography systems from Siemens Healthineers, enabling a more comfortable and personalised patient experience while capturing high quality […]

Royal Philips joined staff at Royal Cornwall Hospital to celebrate the opening of a new scanning suite and dedicated haematology and oncology ward, complete with Philips MRI Ambient Experience system. Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has opened its purpose-built Trelawny scanning suite and Lowen haematology/oncology ward at its Treliske site in Truro. The extension to […]

CT imaging services in the emergency department (ED) at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust have taken a step forward in modernisation with the installation of an Aquilion One Genesis Edition CT scanner from Canon Medical Systems. Routine and specialist CT procedures are expected to be quicker, at low dose and with excellent image quality due […]

Radiographer Debra Trevaskis, Bracco key account manager south west Stephen Newman, and clinical imaging support worker Lisa Allen. West Cornwall Hospital, part of Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, has chosen Bracco as its CT injector supplier and has recently had a CT Exprès installed.  This is the third injector at the trust, with two already […]

December’s BMUS Ultrasound 2018 annual conference held in Manchester attracted hundreds of delegates, many of whom visited the Nanosonics booth to learn more about trophon2, the company’s automated high level disinfection system for ultrasound probe reprocessing. One of visitors to the booth was head of vascular surgery at Royal Cornwall Hospital Dr Valda Gazzard who […]

Pictured are medical physics radiographer for nuclear medicine Ivor Dixon, GE Healthcare imaging account manager Ben Davis, radiography service lead Jackie Knox, medical physics Chloe Trevail, clinical lead radiologist for nuclear medicine Dr Tom Sulkin, team lead radiographer nuclear medicine Judith Jago, radiographers nuclear medicine Lisa Brennan, John Butler, Peter Stratton and Joy Williams, breast […]

Philips UKI district general manager Lee Moger, imaging, radiotherapy and interim AHP deputy divisional manager CSSC (ops) Emma Spouse, consultant radiologist Dr Phil Cook, MRI team leader James Shaw, radiography service lead Jackie Knox and Philips UKI account manager Claire Whetton. Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust’s decision to purchase a third Philips MRI scanner created […]