The Queen Victoria Hospital has invested £750,000 in a CT scanner, which is geared toward enhancing entry to diagnostics and rising the hospital’s capability.
The Siemens machine replaces the hospital’s first scanner, funded by the hospital’s League of Associates, which was put in in 2018.
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Basis Belief introduced on its web site that the brand new scanner will “improve the hospital’s capability by round 20% and type an necessary a part of its Neighborhood Diagnostic Centre service, offering larger entry for sufferers who want a scan to help a choice to find out the care they want”.
There was a constant improve within the variety of sufferers nationally needing diagnostic companies and diagnostics is a precedence for Sussex as a part of the shared supply plan, trying to improve capability and scale back ready occasions, the belief mentioned.
In addition to serving to the Queen Victoria Hospital to scale back its ready lists, additionally it is hoped that the scanner will help different suppliers in Sussex, Surrey and Kent to scale back their ready lists for CT scans.
Authorities figures revealed on 11 July 2024, present that the UK had the bottom variety of CT scanners (10), MRI models (8.6), and PET scanners (0.5) per million inhabitants in 2021 amongst 10 comparator international locations with comparable ranges of financial growth.
Well being secretary Wes Streeting has pledged to double the variety of CT scanners and MRI scanners.
Talking on the Tony Blair Institute for International Change’s ‘Way forward for Britain’ convention on 9 July, Streeting mentioned: “When you have a look at a few of Labour’s first steps in our manifesto, doubling the variety of CT and MRI scanners and never simply extra scanners, however AI-enabled scanners, these are large productiveness positive aspects.
“These are large enhancements for affected person expertise when it comes to how many individuals we will get by and the way shortly – they’re large enhancements within the high quality of diagnostics”.
In the meantime in April 2024, the Queen Victoria Hospital introduced that it awarded Perception Direct an estimated £10m contract for the Altera Dawn digital affected person document, which will run till March 2029, with the potential for an extra extension for 2 years.