On Monday there was a showstopper of an opening for our third MRI scanner.

Our CEO Owen Williams was invited to the double-cake event! Top effort from Helen Uttley, right in the photo for Bake Off quality cakes. We love the scanner-shaped one complete with two bare feet sticking out!

The new scanner replaces and is located on the same site as the previous visiting mobile MRI scanners. It came to us after  travelling from Holland to Hull down the M62 to HRI.

It brings with it many benefits for our patients. For example, it can scan a wider range of exams and now enables all patients with differing conditions to be scanned. It links directly into the main hospital through the existing MRI unit, so there is no more need to go outside into the car park as there was with the mobile van. As the unit is now permanently onsite - rather than a visiting MRI scanner version -  it means we can scan more patients and it is planned to be used seven days a week just like the other MRI scanners.

We currently perform an average of 20 MRI scans a day on each of the static scanners.  There is also a third MRI scanner at CRH.