Photo courtesy SASH:  Photo shows CT scanner at East Surrey Hospital

Two new CT scanners are fully operational at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust. 

The computerised tomography scanners can perform over a thousand patient scans every month at East Surrey and Crawley Hospitals.  This means there is now an additional scanner to add to the existing one at Crawley, while the oldest of the three scanners at East Surrey Hospital has been replaced.  A new scanner completes an examination in less than a second with increased quality and accuracy.  The images can detect a range of conditions such as cancers, strokes and heart disease. 

The arrival of the new scanners follows the opening of a purpose built MRI department at East Surrey Hospital earlier in the year.

Photo courtesy SASH:  Photo shows CT Scanner at Crawley Hospital