New X-ray machine installed in UK medical centre
Tuesday 3rd February 2009
A state-of-the-art X-ray machine has been installed in a Suffolk medical centre.
Radiographers at St Leonard's Hospital in Sudbury, which is run by West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust, have begun using the new digital facility.
Costing £130,000, the device replaced an older X-ray machine which broke down towards the end of last year.
Commenting on the development, Nigel Beeton, imaging services manager at West Suffolk Hospital, said: "This new system means clinicians will get the results of x-rays much more quickly, speeding up diagnosis. It also gives patients a better choice of where they go for routine x-rays."
The new facilities will operate from Mondays to Fridays.
Recently, a new computer tomography scanner was fitted in Halton Hospital in Runcorn, the Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News reported.
The device is said to be able to scan four times faster than the machine it replaced and also to produce images of a higher quality.
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