Patients are set to benefit following the opening of a new state of the art digital x-ray room at Good Hope. Refurbishment of the x-ray room started in the summer and was completed in October following the arrival of the new equipment. The new x-ray room, based in the Emergency Department, will not only give patients access to the best care and experience, it will support the team and the site to better manage the increasingly heavy demand on its emergency services.
Good Hope has already benefitted from the arrival of a new ultrasound machine in the main imaging department and there are further plans in place to replace the CT Scanner later this year along with adding an additional MRI scanner in April 2017.
The imaging equipment replacement is part of a larger project across all sites, which has seen an investment of over £3m, to upgrade and modernise the imaging facilities ahead of the planned developments with the ACAD.
Work will be carried out over the coming months and is set to complete by the summer of 2017. These will include a replacement interventional radiology room at Heartlands along with the relocation and replacement of general x-ray room, replacement of the ED x-ray room, digital x-ray mobile, an image intensifier, MRI and CT scanner. Solihull will also be receiving new equipment in the coming months, to which plans are currently being finalised.
The teams are now working with NHS Supply Chain in the design of a rolling equipment replacement programme and have started exploring possible options for the next financial year and beyond. Further information and the details will be circulated to patients and staff once the timelines have been agreed as, in order to complete the work, some disruption to service may occur.
Once complete, the imaging equipment upgrade will make a huge difference to not only the service but to all our hospital sites, patients and staffs’ care and experience.
