Radiology & MRI Information Request
Dear Medway NHS Foundation Trust,
Please can you provide the following information.
1. Do you have a Radiology Managed Service running in your trust, if yes what are the start and end dates?
2. Do you have a capital replacement plan for Radiology equipment, if so, please share it?
3. Please share your radiology equipment at risk register.
4. Which contrast injectors do you have installed, please provide make, models, installation dates and any service provision that you have?
5. Who provides your RIS & PACS?
6. What AI do you have or are investigating for your practice?
Can you please tell me the following information about the MRI equipment at the Trust:
1. Please share the makes, model, installation dates and locations of your MRI scanners?
2. Do you have any service plans running on your MRI scanners. Please detail scope, length and provider?
3. Do you repair damaged coils. If you do, how much have you spent on repairing them in the past twelve months?
4. What procedures do you perform, and which are your most common?
Yours faithfully,
Joseph Bradley
Dear Joseph Bradley
Freedom of Information Request: reference 8822
Thank you for your email requesting information regarding Medway NHS
Foundation Trust. Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 and will be responded to within the
statutory 20 working day deadline.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Team
[1][email address]
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Windmill Road
Gillingham
Kent
ME7 5NY
Website: [2]www.medway.nhs.uk
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Dear Joseph Bradley
Freedom of Information Request: reference 8822
Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and
please accept our apologies for the delay in responding.
The information you have requested is as follows:
Please can you provide the following information.
1. Do you have a Radiology Managed Service running in your trust, if yes
what are the start and end dates? Yes- Radiology August 2023 to August
2033 and MRI, 01/04/2022 – contracts currently being renegotiated.
2. Do you have a capital replacement plan for Radiology equipment, if so,
please share it? No
3. Please share your radiology equipment at risk register. Please see
below details of the radiology equipment on the at risk register.
3x X-ray machines
1x mobile X-ray machine
1x dental X-ray machine
1x Interventional Radiology machine
4. Which contrast injectors do you have installed, please provide make,
models, installation dates and any service provision that you have? 2
MRXPerion, MEDRAD injectors, installed on 12/09/2023, still under
warranty.
5. Who provides your RIS & PACS? RIS Soliton, PACS - Sectra
6. What AI do you have or are investigating for your practice? Research
with Kings College London, Bone expert and Aidence, MIDI Study (MR
Imaging Abnormality Deep Learning Identification).
Can you please tell me the following information about the MRI equipment
at the Trust:
1. Please share the makes, model, installation dates and locations of your
MRI scanners? Siemens Magnetom Aera 1.5T scanner located on site and
installed on 16/04/2014. Siemens Magnetom Avanto Fit 1.5T Relocatable
scanner (leased) located in site car park, installed on 26/09/2020.
Siemens Magnetom Aera 1.5T (leased) located in site car park, installed on
16/08/2022.
2. Do you have any service plans running on your MRI scanners. Please
detail scope, length and provider? GE multivendor, 01/04/2022 –
01/04/2026. Preventative Maintenance and scanner unscheduled downtime.
Excluding weekends (Site Siemens Magnetom Aera 1.5T). Leased scanners have
service maintenance as part of lease.
3. Do you repair damaged coils. If you do, how much have you spent on
repairing them in the past twelve months? Yes. £11,148.65 exc VAT.
4. What procedures do you perform, and which are your most common? Most
MRI exams apart from Cardio, MR Perfusion and Spectroscopy.
I hope that this gives you the answer you need, but if you are
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for an internal review. Internal review requests should be submitted
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Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Windmill Road
Gillingham
Kent
ME7 5NY
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Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Team
[2][email address]
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Windmill Road
Gillingham
Kent
ME7 5NY
Website: [3]www.medway.nhs.uk
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