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Central Middlesex Hospital, part of London North West Healthcare NHS Trust, is leading the way in providing rapid liver disease diagnosis by using innovative technology to deliver full liver assessments in one day. The hospital has reduced the number of liver biopsies, the current gold standard method for assessing liver disease, by utilising Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) technology on an ACUSON S2000TM ultrasound system from Siemens Healthcare.

Building on the continued development of the latest cloud-based traffic technology, Siemens has released an additional module to Stratos this month, enabling traffic managers to keep the travelling public informed of current traffic conditions on the road network. Designed using the latest web technologies with versions tailored for both desktop and mobile devices, Siemens Stratos Emerge allows local authorities to quickly and easily configure and automatically publish traffic network information to the public.

Siemens Healthcare has won 3 awards at the UK Best Factory Awards held on Friday 25th September.

Today sees a celebration event at Siemens’ Customer Service Centre in Newcastle to mark 32 Siemens apprentices finishing a four-year long journey to become fully-fledged Siemens Wind Technicians.

Groundbreaking new ultrasound technology capable of diagnosing and monitoring liver disease without the need for surgery has been approved for use by the NHS. The ultrasound technique, called Virtual Touch Quantification™ (VTQ) from Siemens Healthcare, assesses the stiffness of the liver based on readings from invisible, high-intensity shear waves which are transmitted through the liver.

Siemens today (September 28) announced the award of a major contract supporting the employment of more than 250 people to independent Humber-based business Clugston as part of its huge Hull development.

Siemens Healthcare is providing a range of tools and advanced technology to help tackle the perception that cardiac MR is complex and unattainable for widespread use. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes more than a quarter of all deaths in the UK, or around 160,000 deaths each year1. A range of innovative MR systems, clinical software applications and imaging coils ensure the most difficult cardiac MR examinations can be simplified, providing more clinicians with the ability to image cardiac patients rapidly and efficiently.

Siemens Healthcare has launched a range of new online resources to support teachers with science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). The new materials also support lesson workshops for personal, social and health education (PSHE) curricula.

Since the beginning of 2014, big-hearted staff at Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery in Lincoln have Walked the Walk, gone the extra mile, and had their cake and eaten it, all in the name of charity.

Families, train enthusiasts and rail users are invited to visit the Siemens Heathrow Express traincare facility for free on Saturday 26 September, as part of London Transport Museum Depot Open Weekend.

Chippenham-based Siemens Rail Automation has recruited 18 graduates who will now embark on the company’s two-year training programme.