Tameside General Hospital

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust has collaborated with its partner of 20 years, Canon Medical Systems UK, to expand its in-house MRI capacity. Utilising last-minute funding awarded to Greater Manchester by the NHS, the hospital worked with Canon Medical to design a bespoke MRI suite that will serve as a permanent solution […]

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust has secured £2.4 million from NHS England for an additional MRI system. This installation is part of the wider work of the Greater Manchester Imaging Network, of which the trust is a member. The system from Canon Medical will provide a robust long-term solution for the trust, […]

Since 2018, Fujifilm has installed four Visionary Suite room solutions and five mobile units at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. The installation of the fifth digital imaging room at the hospital this year was undertaken in the midst of lockdown. Despite the challenges posed for both organisations, Fujifilm and Tameside General Hospital […]

Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust advanced practitioners Debbie Cooper, Kathryn Rowles and Lynette Maidment with Toshiba ultrasound applications specialist Paula Connor and advanced practitioner Shivani Lakhani. Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has purchased a Toshiba Aplio ultrasound system to replace older equipment in its early pregnancy assessment unit. Said to be a cost-effective, productive and […]

Paul Fish has been at Tameside Hospital for 41 years, in which time he has seen the role of the radiographer grow significantly. Radiographer and radiology manager Paul Fish, who worked at Tameside Hospital for 41 years, has taken his last x-ray and now believes “the time is now right to move on.” He has […]

Radiographers Alison Dewsnap-Cooper and Sam Butler with superintendent radiographer Lynn Beech, radiographer James Nolan, Philips account manager Steve Oliver and advanced practitioner Jo Wito.   Tameside General Hospital has invested in two Philips DigitalDiagnost VM digital radiography systems to replace its long-lived, 19-year-old Philips Bucky rooms.   Due to redevelopment of the hospital site, Tameside […]

Viewing Tameside’s new scanner are (from left) sonographers Alison Blackman and Janet Peacock, Toshiba clinical applications specialist Nicolette Sims, deputy radiology manager Paul Fish and sonographers Ruth Berry, Lynette Maidment and Shivani Lakhani.   When the time came to replace an ageing ultrasound machine, Tameside Hospital acquired at short notice a Xario 15 scanner from […]