Siemens Healthineers

A major milestone in one of the world’s most ambitious medical research initiatives has been reached: more than 100,000 participants have now undergone whole body MRI scans for UK Biobank. It marks a pivotal moment in the long-term collaboration with Siemens Healthineers, whose 1.5T and 3.0T MRI systems are used for imaging in a project […]

Benenden Hospital, an independent hospital near Cranbrook in Kent, has opened its newly refurbished MRI suite, equipped with a £1 million MRI scanner. To celebrate the installation an official ribbon cutting ceremony took place in July, bringing together the hospital’s imaging team, community partners, the project management team and hospital leadership. The ribbon was cut […]

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 […]

Research from Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Imperial College London and Siemens Healthineers suggests that implementing a technology-driven vision for the NHS could add £40bn to UK GDP annually through improved population health. The report Faster, Better & Earlier Diagnosis says that such an approach could generate £12-18bn in NHS productivity gains through faster, earlier diagnosis […]

Siemens Healthineers showcased its latest MRI system at this year’s European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology Congress in Vienna, Austria. The 1.5T Magnetom Flow RT Pro Edition is helium-independent and does not require a quench pipe so it can be sited close to a linac to help deliver adaptive radiation therapy. Through AI-powered image reconstruction […]

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust has transformed its breast imaging services with the UK’s first Mammomat B.brilliant mammography system from Siemens Healthineers. This addition is said to bring the latest technology including the widest tomosynthesis angle with the fastest scan time on the market of less than five seconds. Following its accreditation by the […]

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have announced the first community diagnostic centre (CDC) Value Partnership to be collaboratively delivered with Siemens Healthineers. The seven-year partnership places efficiency, scalability and patient care at its core. Once fully operational, the CDC is set to deliver up to 104,000 […]

Scotland’s first total body PET scanner is now operational at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. It is co-managed by the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, delivered by the National PET Imaging Platform (NPIP) and run by UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Medical Research Council, Innovate UK and Medicines Discovery Catapult. NPIP is funded by a […]