St James’s University Hospital

Leeds Cancer Centre at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has taken a step forward in radiotherapy planning with the upgrade of a Philips Ingenia Evolution 1.5T MRI to include SmartSpeed technology. In July, it became one of the first radiotherapy centres in the world, alongside others in Japan and the Netherlands, to use SmartSpeed clinically. […]

Patients in Leeds are expected to benefit from faster and more accurate chest x-ray diagnoses with the introduction of AI software that is undergoing clinical evaluation at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT). Every year, more than 135,000 chest x-rays are performed at LTHT. The software will act as a ‘second pair of eyes’ for […]

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is piloting an AI tool designed to improve prostate cancer diagnosis. In collaboration with Lucida Medical, the trust is testing the effectiveness of the Prostate Intelligence (Pi) tool, an advanced AI and machine learning software system, in detecting prostate cancer lesions from MRI scans. Patients with prostate cancer face a complex diagnostic […]

A significant part of training and education in the National Health Service (NHS) must be embedded in clinical settings to help ensure that students and trainees can gain practical experience within a great learning environment. In November, the partnership between AGFA HealthCare and Leeds Teaching Hospitals (LTHT) provided the opportunity to see such facilities being delivered […]

Agfa HealthCare’s latest insights into clinical breakthroughs show Leeds Teaching Hospitals revolutionising imaging IT within its trust. In association with BBC StoryWorks and Medtech Europe, Leeds Teaching Hospital’s radiology department took the opportunity to showcase progressive attitudes, visible and viable insights, and investment into clinicians’ wellbeing with the transition to Enterprise Imaging. As one of […]

The breast imaging service at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the first in the UK to introduce an AI technology from Densitas that evaluates the technical quality of mammograms. The Canadian software company has worked to customise the intelliMammo software to meet the department’s needs and the image quality standards required by the NHS […]

Micrima continues to increase the number of sites collecting data for the development of its early breast cancer detection system Maria. During December the third Maria breast imaging system in the UK was installed at the St James’s University Hospital site, part of The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The system will initially be collecting […]

Royal Philips and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have reached a seven-year managed service agreement to help deliver the trusts’ vision of setting new standards of excellence for cardiac care. “The cardiology team is very proud of the quality of cardiac care we are able to deliver for our patients,” said clinical director for cardiology […]