Annual Report 2010-11 - Southern Health and Social Care Trust
Annual Report 2010-11 - Southern Health and Social Care Trust
Annual Report 2010-11 - Southern Health and Social Care Trust
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southern health <strong>and</strong> social care trust<br />
Providing safe high quality care<br />
New £<br />
Ultrasound Scanner for South Tyrone Hospital<br />
Dr Ayman Morsy, Consultant Obstetrician <strong>and</strong> Vera Kelso, Lead Midwife<br />
with members of South Tyrone Hospital’s Local Comforts <strong>and</strong> Free Funds<br />
Committee <strong>and</strong> the new ultrasound scanner<br />
£<br />
New<br />
New £<br />
New CT Scanner for Daisy Hill Hospital<br />
In June, the <strong>Trust</strong> welcomed the announcement that funding for a new CT scanner at Daisy Hill<br />
Hospital had been approved. The new multi slice scanner, worth £600,000 replaced the previous<br />
model at the hospital.<br />
Welcoming the announcement, <strong>Trust</strong> Chief Executive Mairead McAlinden said: “At present many<br />
patients from Daisy Hill need to attend Craigavon Area Hospital for CT scans. As a key part of our<br />
hospital network, it is essential that Daisy Hill has the most up to date equipment to provide a full<br />
diagnostic service.<br />
The new scanner will enable<br />
radiology staff at Daisy Hill<br />
to diagnose more patients for<br />
a wider range of conditions.<br />
This funding has been another<br />
welcome boost to the <strong>Trust</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
to Daisy Hill Hospital. Not only<br />
will this scanner help improve the<br />
diagnostic services <strong>and</strong> quality of<br />
care we can offer from Daisy Hill,<br />
but it will support us in our wider<br />
plans to develop a range of other<br />
services at the hospital in the<br />
future.”<br />
<strong>Health</strong> Minister Edwin Poots visiting the new CT<br />
scanner at Daisy Hill Hospital<br />
The <strong>Trust</strong> has been able to purchase a<br />
new ultrasound scanner for South Tyrone<br />
Hospital with the help of the hospital’s Local<br />
Comforts <strong>and</strong> Free Funds Committee. The<br />
state-of-the-art scanner which cost £30,000<br />
is being used in the hospital’s ante natal<br />
outpatients department to check the health<br />
<strong>and</strong> wellbeing of babies throughout each<br />
stage of pregnancy. The Local Comforts <strong>and</strong><br />
Free Funds Committee contributed £15,000<br />
towards the scanner.<br />
The scanner will provide local women with more<br />
accurate <strong>and</strong> timely information at each stage<br />
of pregnancy. Previously higher risk women<br />
who needed more frequent or more detailed<br />
scans, had to travel to Craigavon or Belfast.<br />
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