Wythenshawe Hospital

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust has installed a series of C-arms, interventional imaging, mobile x-ray and ultrasound equipment. The upgrades form part of more than 350 installations scheduled over a 15-year partnership with Siemens Healthineers. The Value Partnership that began in March last year manages the trust’s imaging equipment to ensure it keeps pace with […]

Superintendent sonographer Gill Martin, Toshiba Medical Systems ultrasound applications specialist Paula Connor, Nigel Pickles from the medical physics department and midwife Janie Jennings. Wythenshawe Hospital has purchased a Toshiba Xario 200 ultrasound scanner for use in its delivery suite.  It will be used by the obstetricians for presentation scans on women in labour and is […]

Seated are Medtron’s Radko Radev, radiographer Sanoj Varghese, physiologist Wendy Gamlin, Guerbet product manager Barbara Suggitt and Medtron’s Raphael David.  Behind them are lead radiographer David Clark, Guerbet Laboratories account manager Stephen Green and radiographers Jacintha Nkwopara and Mark Iwankiw. The Alliance Medical North West Heart Centre, based at University Hospital of South Manchester, has […]

Lead radiographer and programme manager Claire Mercer (seated) with advanced practitioners Clare Keevil and Amanda Bath. The Nightingale Centre and Genesis Cancer Prevention Centre at University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust has taken delivery of one of Knight Imaging’s Cardiff Chairs, a purpose-built adjustable chair designed for use in breast imaging, mammography and […]

With some new equipment are Rachel Hasanj, Allison Kelly and Cathy Hill. The Nightingale Centre and Genesis Prevention Centre at the University Hospital of South Manchester, Wythenshawe, has acquired three Faxitron specimen radiography systems.  Lead radiographer in breast imaging Claire Mercer, who was appointed in 2013, quickly established that both specimen radiography systems in radiology […]

Advanced urology practitioner John Kennedy and Philips account manager Steve Oliver with account manager Theresa Gibson, clinical manager Amanda Dyson and advanced urology practitioner Stephanie Atkinson.   Wythenshawe Hospital, part of the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, has replaced two tomography systems with a Philips Bucky Diagnost.  In addition to general radiography, […]

TV comedienne and actress Caroline Aherne and staff at Wythenshawe Hospital at the official opening of the UK’s first Aera MRI scanner from Siemens Healthcare.  From left are MRI radiographer Nick Bond, MRI appointments clerk Michelle Thomas, consultant radiologist Jonathan Tuck, lead MRI radiographer Nick Sanderson, Caroline Aherne, MRI helper Carol Grady, MRI radiographer Richard […]

Cardiac physiologists (from left) James McCloud, Martin Stout, Jane Lynch and Rekha Mistry with consultant cardiologist Dr Anita Macnab, cardiac physiologists Michael Gately and Amanda Holmes, specialist nurses in echo Akuna Ihekwaba and Denise Timmis and cardiac physiologist Theresa Howard.   Wythenshawe Hospital has installed seven Philips iE33 flagship cardiac ultrasound systems, three with 3D […]