"The CT scanning completes our fantastic diagnostic facilities, allowing us to offer our patients the very best in care." Matt Gurney, Northwest Surgeons
Quick facts
Midland Lead Healthcare supplied lead-lined plasterboards with accompanying lead strips and battens to Northwest Surgeons for use in the construction of a new CT scanning facility. In addition, we supplied both an internal and external lead door, together with a lead viewing window. All products were code 5, suitable for use across a range of diagnostic applications.
The Project
Northwest surgeons, a veterinary referral hospital, offers excellent facilities to its patients, which up until 2015 included an in-house MRI scanner, two x-ray suites, ultrasound scanning and a wide range of endoscopic imaging equipment. For 5 years the facility used a mobile scanning service which visited once a week. Monique Jones, Diagnostic Imaging Nurse at Northwest Surgeons commented. "It was often chaotic making sure we could scan all cases in the time. What we really wanted was the flexibility to scan our patients when they needed it rather than be confined to just one day."
Due to the growth in case load and the hospital's acquisition by the Pets at Home Vet Group in 2015, the decision was made to invest in their own CT scanning facility. Construction took place in November of the same year and the first patient was scanned on the 15th December. All of the specialist disciplines within the hospital now use the CT scanner as part of the diagnostic process when required, from surgical patients who need orthopaedic surgery to medicine patients with unexplained disease processes. The scanner has been used for 337 patients since its introduction and has also lead to the launch an oncology service as well as the ability to accommodate eye vet referrals for ophthalmology cases.
