Stafford

NHS England – Midlands has provided £1.28 million funding to develop a new training model for the Midlands Imaging Training Academy (MITA) at County Hospital in Stafford, allowing one consultant to simultaneously train and supervise learners across all regional academy sites, giving other consultants more time to spend with patients. The new EPACS (electronics and […]

A Stoke-on-Trent couple are urging people to take up the offer of cancer screening services provided by University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) after they were diagnosed with cancer within four months of each other. Former UHNM healthcare assistant Kath Dean and her husband Michael, a former West Midlands Ambulance Service driver, were […]

Seated are radiographers Daniel Smith and Tonderai Mudyawabikwa, imaging assistant Jenni-Lee Darby and radiographer Louise Perry.  Behind them are radiographer Gill Hall, imaging assistant Emily Burgess, non-executive director Steve Burgin and imaging scheduler Jayne Williams. County Hospital, part of University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, has celebrated the installation of its second MRI scanner.  […]

Radiographer Pat Bendall, modality team leader Julia Matheson, Siemens Healthcare regional sales manager John Brady and radiographer Karen Bassett. Haywood Hospital, part of Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust, has become the first in the UK to benefit from an Ysio Max digital radiography system from Siemens Healthcare.  The hospital chose the system […]

GE Healthcare ultrasound specialist Jon Robinson, consultant vascular surgeon Mr Robin Calderwood, theatre co-ordinator Julie Lehman, staff nurses Rosie Smith and Diane Turner with Covidien vascular sales specialist and account manager Louisa Powell-Smith. When varicose veins are left untreated, the condition can progress to chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) and result in symptoms that worsen over […]