In front are imaging assistant Lyndsay Stafford, deputy imaging manager Sarah Barnett, senior radiographer Hilary Green, MRI and CT lead radiographer Jackie Farrow and imaging manager Amelia Timmis. Behind them are Steve Backshall, senior mammographer Judy Ross, senior radiographers Louise Walker and Erika Kellet, consultant radiologist Dr Wei Cheun Liong, lead receptionist Gillian Witney and imaging assistant Doreen Buckmaster.
Wildlife expert and TV presenter Steve Backshall was a special guest at BMI The Chiltern Hospital for the opening of GE Healthcare’s Optima MR450w 1.5T scanner. As part of a £1.3 million improvement project, the hospital in Great Missenden unveiled the wide bore MRI scanner in its state-of-the-art imaging department.
Executive director Jayne Tunstall said: “We are very proud of our new scanner and were delighted when Steve agreed to officially open it. The scanner will take pride of place in the hospital’s new imaging department.”
See the full report on page 3 of the September 2015 issue of RAD Magazine.