New radiography units to open at hospital
Thursday 6th November 2008
New state-of-the-art radiography scanning units are to open this weekend in Lancashire.
As part of World Radiography Day, Royal Preston Hospital will provide students and the general public with a preview into the equipment, the Preston Citizen reports.
According to the publication, the Positron Emission Tomography/Computerised Tomography scanner and the production unit that houses it is the only one of its kind in a UK hospital and is only one of two in the world.
The aim of the open day is to raise awareness of the work of people with radiography jobs.
"If you go to hospital, you will probably see a radiographer and many people do not know what we do," stated Emma Wright, specialist radiographer in nuclear medicine at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Providing services to a population of around 370,000, the trust runs both South Ribble Hospital and Royal Preston Hospital and it provides a range of services, including high dependency and coronary care units.
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