Solihull

Spire Parkway Hospital has opened a new mammography suite during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Solihull facility, attended by vice chair and non-executive director Sir David Sloman. Designed to provide a calm and comfortable environment for patients, the suite is equipped with the latest digital breast imaging technology to enhance diagnostic confidence for clinicians and […]

More NHS and private patients will be scanned more quickly following delivery of a Canon Medical Systems Aquilion Prime SP CT scanner at Spire Parkway Hospital in Solihull. The £600,000 investment will provide more rapid diagnoses for more patients than previously possible, helping reduce the region’s diagnostic waiting lists. Using the latest AI technology, the […]

TICCS Ultrasound office and training manager Natasha Mahay welcomes delegates. In May, representatives from independent accredited provider of ultrasound services TICCS Ultrasound and the University of Essex School of Health and Human Sciences, welcomed a number of highly experienced sonographers onto a course for the postgraduate certificate musculoskeletal assessment – imaging. The first module at […]

Wolverson X-ray regional sales manager Gurpal Matharu with CMC imaging staff Clare Ryan, Dr David Beale, Mandy McGarr, Sarah Davie, Sioned Jones and Carol Addis. CMC Imaging at Heath Lodge in Solihull has taken delivery of an Orbita Imaging Table from Wovlerson X-ray. The private clinic also has two MRI scanners that are open architecture, offering […]

In the front row are consultant gynaecologist Shirin Irani, InSightec president and ceo Dr Kobi Vortman, consultant interventional radiologist Dr Paul Crowe and hospital director Paula Naylor.  Behind are GE Healthcare UK and Ireland general manager Karl Blight, GE director of strategic accounts Colin McConnell and InSightec vp Europe Ron Aginsky. Lengthy hospital stays may […]

Lecturers and attendees of the Solihull MRI study day break for a group photograph.   Toshiba Medical Systems and the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust sponsored the Solihull MRI Study Day, that had lectures geared towards radiographers and radiologists.    The day was chaired by Dr J Reynolds and Mr R Puni of the […]

From left,  Toshiba UK md Dr Matthew Stork, professor of imaging science at Imperial College London Professor Joe Hajnal, consultant radiologist at Heart of England NHS Trust Dr John Henderson, Toshiba MRI clinical scientist Dr Faiza Admiraal-Behloul, Heart of England NHS Trust consultant radiologist, Dr John Reynolds and superintendent radiographer and MRI lead Rakesh Puni, […]

Lead mammographer Karen Sanford, SPR Vanessa Palmer and senior radiographer Loreta Almoguera.   The x-ray department at Solihull Hospital has installed the latest Bioptics digital specimen radiography system.    Lead mammographer Karen Sanford explained: “We wanted to be able to image our core biopsy specimens in a device intended for this purpose.  After considering alternatives, […]