Diagnostic Imaging, often known as radiology or x-ray, covers a range of imaging or scanning tests that help with diagnosis and treatment.
For appointments or day case procedures please ensure you read your appointment letter to find your required department, it will be either RDCU, X-ray and Scanning, Nuclear Medicine or Paediatric X-ray, Mammography.
Please give yourself time before your appointment for parking and find your way to the department especially if this is your first visit.
Professionals, known as radiographers, obtain these images or scans using highly specialised scanners, and medical specialists called radiologists read the images.
Please see a list below of some of our services:
- Ultrasound
- CT (Computed Tomography)
- MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
- Nuclear Medicine - a small amount of radioactivity is injected into the patient, rather than the patient being exposed to X-rays.
- Mammography
- Fluoroscopy
- Interventional radiology - uses imaging as a guide to perform a therapeutic procedure, usually one which is minimally invasive (keyhole or pinhole, rather than open, surgery).
The department is split between X-ray and scanning, primarily for outpatients, and the Radiology Day Case Unit (RDCU) which is for inpatients and interventional procedures.
We are an accredited training department for both radiologists and radiographers as well as a teaching hospital so there may be students present/undertaking examinations.
- X-ray and Scanning Department - C Level, via the North Entrance
- Radiology Day Case Unit (RDCU) - C Level via the North Entrance
- Nuclear Medicine Department - C Level via the North Entrance
- Paediatric Department - A Level via the Main Entrance
- Mammography Department - D Level.
CT and MRI: 8am until 8pm - 7 days a week
Ultrasound: 8.30am until 4.30pm – Monday to Friday
Fluoroscopy – 8.30am until 3.30pm – Monday to Friday
X-ray – 8.30am until 4pm – Monday to Friday