In an Innovate UK funded project, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NuTH) are working in collaboration with local SME, Kromek, to undertake care pathway analysis and qualitative research to explore the perceptions of MBI among UK stakeholders.
A team from the Northern Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Directorate has won an award at the Bright Ideas in Health Awards, sponsored by the Academic Health Science Network in the North East and North Cumbria. The NMPCE team of Alison Bray, Helen Elliott and Tim Powell are working in partnership with colleagues from the Kromek Group, the NIHR Newcastle MedTech and In-Vitro Diagnostics Cooperative and the Radiology Directorate of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to develop a novel imaging device for detecting breast cancer.