Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
Great Western Road, Gloucester GK1 3NN
Tel:08454 222222 Fax:08454 226535
Gloucestershire Royal Hospital is a 600-bed DGH serving a population of approximately 350,000. It also provides countywide services in renal medicine and haemodialysis as well as paediatrics, paediatric oncology, rheumatology, dermatology and ENT.
Inpatient neurology is also countywide. A £30M redevelopment providing a new children’s hospital, a new A&E department and coronary care unit opened in 2004.
Equipment
• CT: 2 CT scanners are provided, one a Philips MDCT (16-slice) and the other a Philips Spiral CT scanner. The latter is about to be replaced with a 64-slice MDCT.
• Interventional Suite: Philips Allura Exper C-arm system with a flat plate detector. This has been operational since November 2006.
• MRI: A 1.5T GE MRI machine
• 5 Ultrasound rooms and a satellite suite of 3 rooms for O&G services
• Multiple DR rooms and 2 digital fluoroscopy units.
• Nuclear Medicine: 1 single-headed gamma camera, 2 double-headed gamma cameras and a fully equipped radiopharmacy.
Workload Characteristics
140,000 examinations were carried out in 2006 which included 15,500 CT scans, 5,500 MRI scans, 28,000 ultrasound scans and 2,300 nuclear medicine procedures.
Approximately 800 interventional procedures are carried out per year, 200 of which are vascular interventions and include endovascular aneurysm repair which is funded separately.
Radiology Personnel
All consultants have expertise in CT and most have MRI interests. Specialist interests are listed below:
Dr S G Cooke Clinical Director (tel: 08454 225557)
Dr P A Birch Clinical Tutor (tel: 08454 225550)
Dr P A Birch* Interventional
Dr E F Brown* Neuro, ENT, PET, Mammography
Dr S G Cooke* Nuclear Medicine, U.S.
Dr P Cory* Paediatrics, U.S.
Dr S C James Musculo-skeletal, U.S.
Dr L M Jelly U.S.
Dr F M Jewell* Musculo-skeletal,
Dr R Lavis* Interventional
Dr V Markos* G.I.
Dr A J Tottle Interventional, Mammography
Dr D A Wallace G.I., U.S.
Dr J B Witcombe Paediatrics
* denotes ‘Full-time’
Teaching, Research and Audit
There is an active, modern postgraduate medical centre with a comprehensive meeting programme. There is also a research and education association between the hospital and Cranfield University (Gloucestershire Royal and Cranfield University Institute of Medical Science). In relation to this professorial chairs in gastrointestinal surgery, gastroenterology and histopathology have been endowed.
There are weekly clinicoradiological meetings in nephrology, vascular surgery and paediatrics as well as weekly MDT meetings for urological, head and neck, ENT, upper GI, colorectal, breast and haematological malignancies. A year 4/5 trainee would be expected to run one of these meetings.
There is ample opportunity for audit and a trainee would be expected to carry out at least one audit project during a six-month rotation.
There are also opportunities for a trainee to be involved in the teaching of junior doctors and medical students.
Year 4/5 Training Rotations Available at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
General Rotation
The Department is staffed by 12 enthusiastic and experienced radiologists (10.5 WTE’s) with whom the year 4/5 trainees have close contact. There is flexibility in agreeing a work programme to best suit their training and educational needs, as well as those of the Department, and there is encouragement to attend educational courses as appropriate.
Our environment enables a trainee who has had previous experience of most modalities to consolidate this and learn to co-ordinate various modern imaging methods to solve complex clinical problems. The single trainee is integrated both socially and educationally into the consultant body and relationships with clinicians are particularly strong.