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The biggest traffic signalling upgrade programme in the country was completed in Greater Manchester by Siemens this month with the replacement of a total of 52,000 traditional traffic signal bulbs with longer-lasting and energy saving LED lights across more than 1,800 sites - saving over one million pounds in the process.

The extended Maidenbower Lane Underbridge in Three Bridges, Crawley, has been officially re-opened by local MP Henry Smith who commended the improvements made to this major thoroughfare as part of Siemens Rail Systems’ investment in the new Thameslink rail depot at Three Bridges.

Aintree University Hospital has recently updated imaging capabilities in its Breast Clinic with the installation of an ACUSON S2000TM from Siemens Healthcare. The system, based in the Breast Clinic, was chosen to provide greater image quality. It is used both by the multi-disciplinary breast team and also the general ultrasound department thanks to its ergonomic design.

Marine Current Turbines, a Siemens business awarded £1 million from Regional Growth Fund

Siemens Healthcare has launched the HELXTM Evolution, the newest iteration of its ACUSON S FamilyTM of ultrasound imaging systems offering HD image quality, streamlined workflow and a sustainable, upgradable platform. The HELX Evolution provides clinicians with a wide range of options, from HD transducers on the ACUSON S1000TM to state-of-the-art ultrasound elastography and tissue strain analysis on the S2000TM and S3000TM.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has enhanced clinical confidence by installing six ACUSON S1000TM ultrasound systems from Siemens Healthcare in its hospitals. The installations are part of a planned system overhaul to re-equip the Ultrasound Department with systems capable of delivering excellent quality images and improved workflow. Three of the systems are being utilised at City Hospital, with the other three in use at the Queen’s Medical Centre, alongside an ACUSON P300TM compact portable ultrasound system which has also recently been installed.

From April 2014, Siemens joins The King’s Fund’s Corporate Supporter programme. This programme allows businesses to support the Fund’s mission of improving health and care, and access insights from the Fund’s thought leading work.

Liver disease is becoming a major health issue and is threatening to overtake heart disease as cause of mortality, often with no clinical presentation until significant damage has occurred.

Outlining how deaths from liver disease in England have risen by 40% between 2001-2012

A £60m investment in new rolling stock for the northwest of England and Scotland, was formally celebrated this week as the 10th new Siemens-built Class 350/4 train was handed over to First TransPennine Express (FTPE).

Over the weekends of 15/16 and 22/23 February, Siemens Rail Automation successfully commissioned the signalling work for the Washwood Heath Freight Lengthening Project, with the infrastructure being signed into use at 02:57 on Monday 24 February.

Building on the success of its predecessors, the latest generation ST950 traffic controller designed and built in the UK by Siemens and launched last year is already establishing a presence around the world. From Brazil and Chile to South Africa and the Middle East, no less than 400 global variants of the ST950 have been ordered and built at the company’s award-winning UK factory in Dorset