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Sue Rennie, Mary Leighton, Tracy Butcher and Sheila Sharples with the new mobile ultrasound machine at the Minerva Health Centre, Lowthorpe Road
Patients will be able to have ultrasound scans without visiting hospital thanks to a mobile unit located at three venues across Preston.
The service has been developed by the ultrasound team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in collaboration with GPs in the area.
A £50,000 mobile ultrasound unit will be located at three health centres across the city on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays each week.
The service will provide ultrasound services to a wide range of patients, including gynaecological and abdominal scanning.
Around 3,100 patients are expected to be treated by the mobile service each year.
Tracy Butcher, consultant sonographer at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We are very excited to be able to offer this service.
“We will be using the latest mobile medical technology to provide the best treatment for all our patients in the communities where they live.”
Dr Zakir Patel, vice chairman of Greater Preston clinical commissioning group and a local GP, said: “We are working hard to bring services closer to where our patients live and to bring down waiting times.
“Mobile sonography is the first of many more community services to come.”
Karen Partington, chief executive of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, said: “We are continually striving to find ways in which we can improve the way we deliver our services to patients.
“This new service will now make ultrasound treatment much more accessible for many people.”
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brookss4
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 06:51 PMAnd how much extra has this all cost. Totally unnecessary additional service. Surely instead they could have paid for a few extra nurses to take the pressure off or get those waiting lists down.
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