Ealing Hospital to get MRI scanner and new Cardiac Investigation Unit
State of the art facilities will provide locally-based services
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Two
new units are being developed at Ealing Hospital to provide important
new clinical services which will ensure local people no longer have to
travel into London for specialist treatment.
A new Cardiac Investigation Unit is currently being developed on Level
4 of the hospital which will allow doctors in the award winning Ealing
heart team (Professor Kooner won Hospital Doctor of the Year and the Ealing
team are Hospital Cardiology Team of the Year) to carry out cardiac catheterisation
procedures, providing accurate information about damaged and diseased
hearts and what treatment is required.
Meanwhile,
a new Magnetic Resonance Imaging scanner unit will be taking shape over
the next couple of months. MRI provides doctors with extremely well defined
and accurate images of soft tissue in the body and enables doctors to
make accurate diagnosis of deep lying injuries and diseases.
The new £2.5 million unit will be constructed by Kier Southern in
pre-built modular pods which will be fitted out before arrival and then
lifted on to the hospital site by a crane to create a new two storey building.
The MRI scanner, weighing six tons, will also be winched by crane into
its new home.
Trust Chief Executive, Fiona Wise, said: “These are tremendous new
additions to the range of services we provide for local people. Until
now, heart patients requiring an angiogram or other investigations, had
to travel to Hammersmith Hospital or further afield. From January 1 2006,
our cardiac team will be able to offer these services at Ealing.
“The MRI scanner will be an important new addition to our imaging
and diagnostic service enabling doctors to make speedy and detailed diagnosis.
The new MRI suite is going to be erected adjacent to the pharmacy and
outpatients departments over the next couple of months and should be ready
to begin work in March 2006. There will be some disruption during the
construction period as the crane lifts the pods into place we apologise
now for any noise or loss of parking spaces during this time.”
November 22, 2005