University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire

University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW) is piloting the Xeos Aura 10, a mobile unit that brings high-resolution molecular imaging directly to theatres for the first time. Distributed and supported by Southern Scientific in the UK, it is designed to reduce the need for further surgery or salvage radiotherapies, allowing surgeons to assess tumour margins in […]

NHS patients in the West Midlands are to benefit from a digital pathology programme designed to help reduce cancer backlogs, transform services and improve the speed and accuracy of cancer diagnosis. As one of the largest digital pathology programmes in Europe, the West Midlands Cancer Alliance covers a population of 5.8 million people across four […]

The nuclear medicine department at the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust has invested in a Lemer Pax Posijet automatic injector. Principal clinical scientist Matthew Galloway and his team have now been using the system for just over six months and report that it is already proving its worth. “Introducing a new system is […]

On September 9, 2021, University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust inaugurated its new Interventional Radiology Theatre Suite with an opening ceremony followed by lectures. The IR Suite includes two GE Healthcare angiographic rooms installed within the last year (Discovery IGS 7 and Innova IGS 5). It also features two multipurpose imaging labs and a […]

The C-Trak Galaxy gamma probe system available from Southern Scientific is used for the detection of radiation during sentinel node biopsies in breast, head and neck, melanoma and other intraoperative cancer surgeries. Head of nuclear medicine at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW) Dr James Cullis explained why the system has been chosen […]

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW) has received four Mammomat Inspiration systems from Siemens Healthineers, comprising three mobile scanners for breast screening and one static system at George Eliot Hospital.  The Warwickshire, Solihull and Coventry Breast Screening Service invites around 55,000 women for screening each year.  The addition of four units to the […]

Philips will be the principal partner on cross-sector collaboration project PathLAKE, which has received £10 million of government funding to develop innovative AI in pathology.  PathLAKE partners from University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust and teaching hospitals and universities at Warwick, Belfast, Oxford and Nottingham will embed and demonstrate the diagnostic efficiency of digital […]

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust was announced the winner of the Health Service Journal’s Patient Safety Team of the Year Award at the annual Patient Safety Congress in Manchester.  The award is given in recognition of an organisation that has made outstanding improvements to patient safety. Nine other organisations were shortlisted for the […]