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Siemens Healthcare has launched the Artis one, a new angiography system optimised for a broad clinical utilisation, at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). The system is ideal for routine diagnostics and interventions, with a large selection of low dose features, designed to fit a broad range of clinical requirements. Energy consumption with the new system is up to 20 percent lower than the Artis zee floor.

Siemens UK will exhibit a number of key products from its international portfolio of traffic solutions at Intertraffic 2014 (stand 11.209, 25 - 28 March: Amsterdam RAI), Europe’s top trade event for infrastructure, ITS traffic management, safety and parking technologies.

One of the largest Electric Vehicle (EV) projects funded by the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) has been awarded to Siemens UK by Bristol City Council, South Gloucestershire Council and Gloucestershire County Council who are all members of the Source West consortium. The delivery of a complete EV charging solution from Siemens UK includes project management, site design, civil and electrical works, installation and commissioning, and three years maintenance managed by the company’s field services team.

For record speeds both on and off the track, Infiniti Red Bull Racing is relying on Siemens software once again this season. At the team’s factory in Milton Keynes, UK, over 100 engineers are using Siemens software to redevelop the world champion racecar for Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo. New rules issued for the 2014 Formula One season by the FIA, motorsport’s global governing body, mandate wide-ranging changes in the car’s design. Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software is helping ensure their rapid implementation.

For the second year running, Siemens’ airport baggage division has succeeded at the annual Heathrow Airport health and safety awards ceremony winning the prestigious Leadership award and judged Highly Commended in both Project and Team categories. The safety awards recognise the company’s outstanding performance and project delivery at Heathrow’s Terminal 2 throughout 2013.

Siemens Healthcare has announced that P3 Medical will be distributing the ACUSON Freestyle™, its innovative wireless ultrasound system, to operating room (OR) and anaesthetic departments across the UK.

On Tuesday 4th February the UK's top engineering undergraduates were presented with the prestigious Sir William Siemens Medal at the Crystal in central London.

Siemens has been recognised for ‘Smart Metering Technology of the Year 2014’ at the recent European Smart Metering Awards held in Central London.

Technology that would streamline workflow and keep dose to the most appropriate level was important to the Paul Strickland Scanner Centre in its selection of a new PET-CT system and it has opted for a BiographTM mCT hybrid PET-CT system from Siemens Healthcare.

Siemens Healthcare announces that from April it will be extending its existing Customer Services Performance Plans to provide both remote and on-site customer service and support from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week as standard.

31 Old Broad Street, a London Bridge Hospital Diagnostic and Treatment Centre, has recently installed its first MAGNETOM® Skyra 3T MRI system from Siemens Healthcare. Supplementary to the hospital’s six existing Siemens MRI systems, it is hoped the Skyra will provide support for more complex clinical procedures.

Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, part of Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has strengthened its CT imaging facilities with the installation of a SOMATOM® Definition Flash CT system from Siemens Healthcare.