Yorkshire

Members of the AAA team with an Esaote MyLab Alpha and portable stand. The North Yorkshire and Humber NHS abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening programme at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has taken delivery of two Esaote MyLab Alpha portable ultrasound machines.  They will be used to perform quick scans on around 9,500 […]

Signing an agreement for a Biograph mCT from Siemens Healthcare to be installed at Castle Hill Hospital are Daisy Appeal Charity chairman of the trustees Professor Nick Stafford and Siemens UK healthcare sector md Gunter Dombrowe.  Also pictured are Siemens molecular imaging product manager Lawrence Foulsham, Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust deputy chief executive […]

At a training session at Barnsley Hospital are Vertec product specialist Bill Reid, hospital staff nurses Pat Beckett and Liane Fearon, who will operate the Discovery A DXA system, with Vertec applications specialist Anne Coggins.   Barnsley Hospital in South Yorkshire has installed an Hologic Discovery A DXA scanner from Vertec Scientific.   DXA scanning […]

Inaugural delegates are Genny Sandon, Dave Allen, Gary Holdsworth, Norma Lloyd, George Michalopoulus, Sharon Friendship, Lynda Johnson, Jo Fowler, Tim Usher and Michelle Chilton.   Developed to provide a forum for CT head reporting radiographers to get together and share their experiences, hopefully providing opportunities to assist and support individuals whilst striving to develop and […]

Advanced  radiographer practitioner David Myers with radiographer Jane Stretton.   The Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust has purchased five dDR mobile x-ray systems.  The MobileDaRt Evolution systems from Xograph Healthcare, are the first to be supplied in the UK with the latest Canon CXDI-55C lightweight detectors.   One of the Evolutions is fitted with the new […]

Philips key account manager Andy Bell, senior staff nurse Karen Litherland, superintendent radiographer John Bowles, angio team lead James Heppenstall, consultant cardiologist and clinical director Dr Stephen Campbell, Philips CV modality sales specialist Simon Wilsdon and senior staff nurse Sarah Fisher.   The South Yorkshire Cardiothoracic Centre at the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, is one […]

Radiographer James Harcus with Xograph territory manager Kevin Owens.   The Grange Surgery, a large GP surgery in the ex-coal mining-area of Hemsworth in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, has installed an Xograph buckyStar TS85ET floor-mounted general radiography system.   The GP surgery, which serves a practice area of 16,000 patients, offers an x-ray, physiotherapy and therapy […]

Ultrasonographers from Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust pose for a picture at a user training course organised by Toshiba Medical Systems.   A user training course was held for all users of Toshiba ultrasound systems in the Mid-Yorkshire NHS Trust. Aim was to consolidate user knowledge of Toshiba ultrasound systems in the trust and to explain […]