This department – perhaps known better as x-ray or radiology – offers an important diagnostic service and supports clinicians both within and outside the hospital.

Most people are familiar with the term ‘x-ray’ – but the medical imaging department covers a wide range of techniques including:

• plain film x-ray
• ultrasound
• CT scanning
• MRI scanning
• nuclear medicine scans (for functional imaging of organs)
• fluoroscopy (studies of internal organs as well as joints)
• angiography (studies of blood vessels)
• mammography (x-rays of the breast)

As well as being a diagnostic department, we also offer a range of therapeutic techniques, including radioactive iodine for thyrotoxicosis, the insertion of tubes for patients on chemotherapy and also to drain abscesses and other fluid collections.

A major £7 million  redevelopment of the medical imaging department was completed in 2006. The department is now 30 per cent bigger than the old area and provides the latest medical imaging facilities – including four modern ultrasound rooms and a new CT department.