Sunderland Royal Hospital

In 2015, Sergio and Emma Petrucci faced every parent’s worst nightmare when their daughter Luna needed heart surgery just before her second birthday. Luna, now nine, was diagnosed with two holes in her heart during a routine check-up and cardiologists made the decision she would need surgery. The work performed by Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital has […]

In 2020 the South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust was awarded funding for a new CT scanner under the first round of Government funding for additional scanners and upgrades. The trust had ordered a CT scanner from Siemens Healthineers and was looking for a high-quality relocatable modular solution that would allow them the flexibility […]

IEL representatives Charlotte Allen and Mark Goodwin. Imaging Equipment Limited reports that it had a successful time at the BNMS annual spring meeting last month and company representatives Charlotte Allen, Mark Goodwin, Will Bryan and Mike Lea enjoyed meeting visitors to the stand. Delegates were able to play arcade games and had the chance to […]

Canon Medical Systems account manager Ruth Rowe and senior applications specialist Heather Dring, CT modality lead Cheryl Bean, CT radiographers Holly Fergusson, Eloise Collings and Faustina Walton, health care assistant Steph Wake and CT radiographer Portia Makuyana. Sunderland Royal Hospital has installed an Aquilion One Genesis Edition CT system in its newly-built emergency department. CT […]

Toshiba Medical Systems clinical specialist ultrasound Tracey Bellas, midwife sonographer Helen Francis, senior sonographer Audrey Everett, sonographer Helen Shotton, midwife sonographer Joanne Knight, sonographer Siboniso Mphisa and antenatal services manager and midwife sonographer Janette Johnson Sunderland Royal Hospital has acquired four Toshiba Aplio 400 ultrasound scanners and a Xario 200 system.  Two Aplio 400 systems […]

Dr Nathaniel Haslam performs a nerve block with the SonoSite M-Turbo. Sunderland Royal Hospital has equipped a dedicated regional anaesthesia room with two SonoSite M-Turbo hand-­carried ultrasound systems to perform nerve blocks and improve theatre efficiency in trauma and orthopaedics. Dr Nathaniel Haslam, consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in regional anaesthesia, said: “The use […]