Keynote speaker announcement! With just 3 weeks to go until our Emerging Healthcare Technologies Symposium we are looking forward to hearing from one of our keynote speakers, Dr Robert Meertens. He will be talking about opportunistic screening for osteoporosis from wrist radiographs: clinical implementation at RCHT. Dr Meertens will discuss the potential of opportunistic screening to help patients cost-effectively, by identifying those most at risk of low-impact fractures. Dr Meertens has been a Medical Imaging Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter since 2013. His research interests and postgraduate supervision primarily focus around diagnostic methods associated with measures of bone health, such as osteoporosis. In particular, this has led to ongoing work in collaboration with Ibex Innovations as an industry partner, including development of advanced software and opportunistic screening opportunities in bone health. Book your online place today: https://lnkd.in/eSYVWz_S
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
Hospitals and Health Care
Truro, Cornwall 8,307 followers
Outstanding Care for One and All!
About us
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) was founded in 1992 as part of the second wave of NHS Trusts to be established in England. We have three main hospital sites: Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro; St Michael’s Hospital, Hayle; and West Cornwall Hospital, Penzance. RCHT also provides imaging and outpatient services at a number of locations across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, as well as birthing centres in St Austell, Helston and on the Isles of Scilly. We serve around 474,000 residents across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, with the remainder of Cornwall’s population in the east and far north of the county looking to Plymouth and North Devon respectively, for their acute hospital services. As a year round tourist destination, the number of people we care for is boosted by holidaymakers, which can more than double our population at the busiest times. Around 6,700 people work together across our hospitals and services, including 400 volunteers and an in-house bank of over 1500 people working flexibly to help us respond to changes in demand. The Trust has teaching hospitals status as part of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (PCMD) and University of Exeter Medical School. Keeping at the forefront of medical advances, the Trust is continually developing its clinical services and is committed to maximising the range of specialist care that can be offered locally. Allied to this is a growing reputation for research and innovation. The Knowledge Spa on the Royal Cornwall Hospital site, the Cornwall base for medical students and the University of Plymouth Faculty of Health and Social Work, has further enhanced a strong reputation for training and education. This plays a vital part in attracting and retaining the Trust’s highly skilled teams of doctors, nurses and other health professionals who care for well over half a million people each year.
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https://mtr.bio/RoyalCornwallHospitals
External link for Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
- Industry
- Hospitals and Health Care
- Company size
- 5,001-10,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Truro, Cornwall
- Type
- Government Agency
- Founded
- 1992
- Specialties
- specialist acute health care and emergency and urgent care services
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Royal Cornwall Hospital
Truro, Cornwall TR1 3LJ, GB
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Trelissick Road
HAYLE, Cornwall TR27 4JA, GB
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St Clare Street
PENZANCE, Cornwall TR18 2PF, GB
Employees at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
Updates
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Staffed by clinicians at RCHT, this new relocatable MRI unit is up and running in Bodmin and will help achieve bringing care closer to home and reduce the backlog in elective care.
Take a look inside around the relocatable MRI unit at Bodmin Community Hospital, which will be able to deliver around 7,000 scans a year. 📰 Read all about it: https://lnkd.in/eiUYauvE
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Keynote speaker announcement! Dr Pierre Berthet-Rayne, PhD, Ing will be joining us at the Emerging Healthcare Technologies Symposium on 27 August. He will be presenting on the next generation of surgeons augmented by robotics vision and AI. Dr. Berthet-Rayne holds a chair within the 3IA Côte d'Azur and supervises several academic collaborations in both the UK and France. As the Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Caranx Medical, his mission is to develop advanced robotics and AI technologies aimed at revolutionising healthcare and saving lives. His extensive research and numerous publications in medical technologies, robotics, and medical imaging have laid the groundwork for the future integration of these technologies into medical practice, promising significant improvements in diagnostics and treatment. Book your online place today: https://lnkd.in/eSYVWz_S
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Our Research and Development Strategy 2024 to 2028 has been published. The department aims to achieve local excellence and global reach through compassionate research. This will be achieved through a focus on three key objectives: • Supported and Valued People • Safe High Quality Care • Journey of Improvement. The strategy can be viewed here, with a summary of our vision for the service on pages 3 and 4: https://lnkd.in/eGxGm6y7 If you would like to find out more about the latest advancements in healthcare technology, join us online at our Emerging Healthcare Technologies Symposium on 27 August 2024. For more information and to reserve your space, please visit https://lnkd.in/e3eUt7sd
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We wanted to share with you news about one of our high value equipment replacement projects... Watch the film to find out more about the work being done to update Cath Lab 1 (Cardiology Catheterisation Laboratory, in full) at the Royal Cornwall Hospital. Service continuity is assured with the installation of a mobile cath lab for planned patient care, while the refurbishment and upgrade of the lab and staff changing rooms has also meant that we have already fitted out a new Changing Places facility in Trelawny Wing. The project work will continue until Christmas this year, with patients being welcomed into the upgraded laboratory early in the new year 2025. InHealth Siemens Healthineers TClarke #hospital #infrastructure #JourneyOfImprovement #OustandingCrae
Cardiology Catheterisation Lab Project
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One day left to submit an abstract of up to 500 words to showcase your work at our Emerging Healthcare Technologies Symposium in August! Please send your submissions to rcht.symposium@nhs.net To find out more about the event and register for a virtual place, please visit: https://lnkd.in/dpSftBSB #EHTS24 Jaya Shrivastava James Clark Lisa Trembath Bianca Mills
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More gongs for our new Trelawny Scanning Suite and Lowen Ward Last week we were delighted to attend the Constructing Excellence South West awards alongside BAM UK & Ireland when they picked another top honour for our new Trelawny Scanning Suite and Lowen Ward building. It was named Infrastructure Project of the Year (over £5 million). On the same night, this fantastic building was recognised again when Jets Group #Otters and TClarke were named runners up in the Innovation category for the vacuum toilets installation. Having already been recognised at the Michelmores Property Awards and The Concrete Society Southwest Awards, we're so proud that this outstanding building is being recognised for its design and innovation. It was also the first new building at the Royal Cornwall Hospital to have the benefit of our Accessibility Advisory Group's input - ensuring good colour contrasts throughout, video intercom entry system, accessible bathroom designs and Makaton signage. Together with our many partners and stakeholders, we have created a wonderful and wonderfully accessible, environment in which we can deliver outstanding care for our patients. Andrew Witnall MCIOB Roberta Fuller Lewis Saundry IEng MICE MAPM Beth Andrew Kris Wojcik Rob Faro CMgr MCMI EngTech MIHEEM Phillips Healthcare disAbility Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Cornwall Disability Alliance #CESW2024
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LAST CALL for abstracts for our Emerging Healthcare Technologies Symposium being held next month. Find out more and book your place at our hybrid event using the QR code below. Please submit your abstract for consideration to rcht.symposium@nhs.net by Friday 26 July. Jaya Shrivastava Bianca Mills Lisa Trembath James Clark
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Last month, we installed a new state-of-the-art gamma camera in our Nuclear Medicine Department at the Royal Cornwall Hospital. It's a vital piece of kit, in a highly specialised area of the hospital that sees a diverse range of patients. Work included the installation of the replacement high-value Discovery NM30 camera provided by GE HealthCare, a new air handling unit (to improve ventilation), a complete room upgrade, and improvements to the department’s dispensary. A wonderful skylight was also installed in the gamma camera room, thanks to RCHT Charity funding. The new gamma camera technology delivers a wealth of improvements including better scan times, more diverse and better quality images, and less analogue noise. In some cases, the level of radioactive dose used can also be reduced. The outcome is an outstanding scanning room that has improved the patient and staff experience immeasurably. Our thanks to our construction partner Kier Group, and to Lewis Saundry IEng MICE MAPM from the hospital's Major Capital Projects team, who led on this project, and to Rachel Rhodes, the Clinical Lead. #Hospital #Imaging #JourneyOfImprovement #BuildingForOutstandingCare
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Have you booked your place at the RCHT Research Team's August conference yet? Our Emerging Healthcare Technologies research symposium is just six weeks away. Join us to learn how some of the latest technologies and medical advances are benefiting patients in Cornwall and hear from local and nationally acclaimed speakers including: - Prof Guang Zhong Yang, Director and Founder of Precision Robotics - Dr Pierre Berthet-Rayne, CTO and Co-founder of Caranx Medical - Dr Robert Meertens, Director of Business Engagement and Innovation (Health and Care Professions) University of Exeter There's still two weeks to submit abstracts for poster and oral presentations at the event where you can showcase innovations and new technologies you've introduced in your practice. Just send a summary of up to 500 words to rcht.symposium@nhs.net by 26 July 2024.
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