3 October 2023 A new Community Diagnostic Centre has opened its doors improving access to non-urgent scans and tests for patients across Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin. The new facility, which is located at Hollinswood House in Stafford Park 1, Telford, opened its first services yesterday, and welcomed its first patients. It means that patients who need non-urgent diagnostic tests [...]
01 January 2019 A new £1 million MRI scanner at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) is helping to reduce waiting and travel time for cardiac patients who previously had to be seen out of Shropshire for their scans. The state-of-the-art scanner was purchased by the League of Friends of the RSH last year after they raised an incredible £1 million [...]
31 October 2018 A team that performs thousands of heart scans at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals every year has enhanced its reputation for high quality and innovation. From left, Emily Challinor (Clinical Physiologist) and Sian Botley (Associate Practitioner) with the certificate from the British Society of Echocardiography. Cardiac ultrasound scanning – echocardiography or simply echo – is the [...]
