Royal Derby Hospital

The team behind the installation of Royal Derby Hospital’s hybrid theatre, which contains advanced theatre equipment, has been presented with a regional award. The specialised hybrid theatre opened in September last year following 10…
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The radiotherapy team at Royal Derby Hospital has won a national award for improving outcomes for more than a thousand cancer patients, through the use of surface-guided radiotherapy (SGRT). The tattoo-free radiotherapy treatment won the…
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Medical equipment service provider Althea and its majority shareholder have announced the commitment of over £100,000 in charitable donations to support the COVID-19 relief efforts of four NHS charities. The donations will provide aid to…
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Royal Derby Hospital has installed a Big Bore RT CT system from Philips UKI in its radiotherapy department. It replaced an existing system and comes with a range of software packages including 4D respiratory imaging and the TumorLOC…
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Two 3D mammography systems that offer women a more comfortable breast examination experience have been installed at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust. The GE Senographe Pristina mammography systems were…
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Vertec Scientific has delivered a Hologic InSight FD Flex mini C-arm system to the Pulvertaft Hand Centre at Royal Derby Hospital.  Derby has had a long association with the use of intra-operative x-ray C-arms, being the first in the NHS to…
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Philips Allura Xper FD20 with Clarity. Royal Derby Hospital’s fluoroscopy department has had a modern interventional suite installed as part of a 10-year Althea managed service contract, which started in April 2015.  An 11-year-old…
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Officially opening the latest TrueBeam is trust medical director Dr Nigel Sturrock (fourth from left), with Althea implementation programme manager George Iliopoulos (second from left) and trust department staff, consultants, and the first…
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Senior experienced rotational radiotherapist David Pilborough, specialist healthcare science practitioner Iqbal Soor, healthcare science practitioner Rebecca Hughes and trainee medical physicist Graham Cornish. Derby Hospitals Charity…
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Pictured at Derby Royal Hospital the handover of two Samsung A35 ultrasound systems from MIS Healthcare Limited are MIS ultrasound account manager John Rimmer, sonographer Amanda Herbert, sonographer manager - operational Sue Brealey,…
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