Nuffield Health North Staffordshire Hospital in Newcastle under Lyme recently acquired a Canon Aquilion PRIME CT scanner. The equipment is installed in a £2.3 million diagnostics suite, which was recently officially opened by Stoke City Football Club Manager Mark Hughes. The new facility was delivered by a partnership between Nuffield Health and InHealth.
Ann Brunt, Nuffield Health North Staffordshire Hospital Director, comments, “In partnership with InHealth we are excited to be opening our new state-of-the-art facility, which provides the latest diagnostic innovation, combined with first-class patient experience. We are hoping this is the beginning of a fundamental transformation of our hospital. As a team, we are already working towards the next step in our development, which includes the creation of an ambulatory and oncology suite, which demonstrates that we are constantly looking at ways to improve our facilities to enable us to provide a better level of service to our customers and to the local community. It will also help to support the care of NHS patients through working with key partners such as local clinical commissioning groups.”
Richard Williams, Imaging Services Manager at In Health says, “We are all very pleased to be part of this marvellous joint venture between InHealth and the Nuffield. It gives us a fantastic opportunity to work together to provide our patients with gold standard diagnostic services and care. To this end, our choice of the Canon 160-slice CT scanner has proven to be a very wise one indeed. Canon told us it was a state-of-the-art, high quality CT system and following installation it has fully lived up to all expectations of the radiographers, radiologists and our referring clinicians.”
The Aquilion PRIME is ideal for departments needing to perform a wide variety of examinations whilst maintaining a high throughput and streamlined workflow. The system has fully integrated advanced dose reduction technologies that enable the operator to consistently obtain maximum quality imaging at the lowest possible radiation dose. The scanner has a wide array of advanced packages, including Canon’s SURECardio software with ECG-gating, cardiac analysis and vessel probe. Nuffield Health North Staffordshire plans to make the most of this investment by starting a new CT cardiac service at the hospital.
Photo: Nuffield Health North Staffs
Shown here, left to right, Matthew Stork, InHealth Managing Director of Diagnostic Services; Barnaby Harrison, Account Manager CT/MR/X-ray, Canon Medical Systems; Jean Frost and Alison Seadon, Radiography Department Assistants; Mark Hughes, Stoke City Football Club Manager; Debbie Lightfoot, Senior Radiographer; Richard Williams, Imaging Services Manager, InHealth; Lesley Hunter, Radiography Department Assistant and Graham Ogden, InHealth Head of Operations
Canon Medical Systems has a carbon-zero project in place. We have calculated the carbon footprint for each of our products to include manufacturing, shipping, delivery and average hospital energy used for the standard lifetime of the equipment as follows:
CT equates to 12 stoves and 48,365 litres of water