INDUSTRY MATTERS London’s premier women’s clinic installs on-
site diagnostic suite The prestigious Twenty-five Harley Street in London is a day clinic that focus’ on women’s health and well-being, providing integrated care and treatment in the areas of gynaecology, aesthetics, dermatology and bone health. The clinic works with some of London’s pre-eminent Consultants offering a bespoke service to their patients. “Twenty-five is constantly looking for ways to improve our patient’s
experience,” said CEO Bob Davidson. “When the clinic decided to enhance our service by including medical imaging we were looking for a complete system that offered cutting edge technology. We selected the Fujifilm Visionary Suite DR room solution and Synapse PACS package as it offered exceptional image quality with advanced functions which allow us to provide a comprehensive medical imaging service to our patients.” The advanced functions offered by Fujifilm, including image stitching and tomosynthesis, were important features for the clinic.
Improved patient experience following
Gloucestershire Hospital upgrade Philips UKI recently upgraded an interventional suite from a Philips Integris system at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital to an AlluraClarity IQ with cardiac capability. The new upgrade to AlluraClarity IQ offers the user high-definition and clear visualisation of even the smallest vessels as well as disease- specific tools and intelligent, intuitive integration of patient information. It enables physicians to deliver fast, confident diagnosis and treatment, with simplified procedures and an efficient clinical workflow. Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHNHSFT) Consultant Radiologist Dr Phil Birch comments, “The new system has exquisite image quality at a very low dose”. Clarity IQ is a novel x-ray imaging technology that combines advanced real-time image noise reduction algorithms with state-of-the- art hardware to reduce patient dose significantly.
Back row left to right: Professor David Reid, Clinical Director; Parminder Dhinjan, Senior Radiographer; Iain Sims, Fujifilm Account Manager. Front row seated left to right: Helen Wilson, Imaging Manager; Angela Addae, Clinic Nurse; Lucy Brewer, Practice Manager; Timmonie Thomas-Rowe, Clinic Nurse.
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS
Foundation Trust invests in Toshiba ultrasound Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust recently in vested in Toshiba ultrasound, purchasing a total of five Aplio 500 systems, one for Todmorden Health Centre, to be used for a variety of exams and one for Huddersfield Royal Infirmary for the antenatal clinic. Calderdale Hospital took delivery of three systems, two for the antenatal clinic and the third scanner for the Gynaecology Assessment Clinic. Chosen for its high image quality, excellent uptime and Toshiba’s unique low flow colour technology (SMI), the new systems also come with Toshiba’s highly valued lifetime applications support. The Aplio 500 offers advanced performance that can be relied
on day-after-day. Cost-effective, productive and versatile, it provides superior imaging with outstanding depth and detail.
Left to right, James Bottom, Senior Radiographer; Dr. Garrett McGann, Consultant Radiologist; Melanie Cooper, Radiology Sister; Alice Prior, Assistant Practitioner; Lee Moger, District General Manager, Philips UKI; Simon Coombes, Care Assistant; Tony Wager, Radiographer; Chris Bax, Team Lead & Senior Engineer, Philips UKI and Jane Robinson , Commercial Lead Imaging Systems South, Philips UKI.
Springfield goes digital with Carestream
Ramsay Health Care UK has installed a Carestream DR Evolution Plus general x-ray room with dual 35x43 wireless shared detectors at its Springfield Hospital site, on the outskirts of Chelmsford in Essex. The 64-bed unit focuses mainly on elective surgery including orthopaedics, spinal, general and cosmetic , pain management, endoscopy, urology, and gynaecology. It seeks to provide a first class service to patients through a programme of continuous development of, and investment in, its staff and facilities. Springfield is just one of several sites that the company is upgrading to use DR over the next few years. This new installation, which was completed in October 2016, will move the whole radiology department at Springfield over from analogue to DR. It will link them to the Carestream RIS/PACS solution that is already in place – and also currently being upgraded – allowing the hospital’s staff to take, share and store high-quality images quickly and efficiently within a single, coherent system.
Back row, left to right, Louise Higgins, Applications Specialist Toshiba Medical Systems; Advanced Practitioner Sonographers: Tina Halstead, Lisa Bury, Ann Hampshire and John Sunderland. Kate Grayson, Team Lead in Ultrasound; Alina Robertshaw, Advanced Practitioner Sonographer; Jo Bertelsen, Account Manager, Toshiba Medical Systems and Nicola Longthorne, Advanced Practitioner Sonographer. Seated in front: Lexi Hall-Lembo, Advanced Practitioner Sonographer; Samantha Ambler, Student Sonographer and Chris Bostock, Advanced Practitioner Sonographer.
JUNE 2017
Left to right: Gary Dunnell (MRI Lead Radiographer), Jennie Daly (CT Lead Radiographer), Phil Thompson (Radiology Manager), Pat Wray (Health Care Assistant), Clare Lee (Senior Radiographer),
Wayne Sharpe (Senior Account Manager, Carestream Health UK), Jean Gammons (Health Care Assistant) and Dr Pearl Wou (Consultant Radiologist)
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