The training is mainly delivered within the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS trust with the two main sites being Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital. Of particular interest to the trainees is the East Riding Medical Education Centre (known as ERMEC) which is located on the Hull Royal Infirmary site. The centre contains a 200 seat auditorium equipped with full video and dual projection facilities and three large seminar rooms. There is an extensive Resource Centre with a sister facility at Castle Hill Hospital.
The Resource Centre have holdings of over 10,000 texts and receive 72 journals on weekly or monthly receipt, together with some Video and DVD items. Access is available to the numerous online resources available from the Resource Centre’s computers. The Resource Centre have 24/7 access via a swipe card system. There is also a clinical skills facility at the Hull Royal Infirmary site which is state of the art, including vascular intervention and ultrasound simulators.
With over 700 beds, this hospital serves as a major trauma unit in Humberside. The main Department of Radiology in this hospital contains 6 general purpose rooms, 4 ultrasound rooms, 8 mobile radiography units and 6 mobile fluoroscopy units.There are 2 multidetector CT scanners. All ultrasound rooms are equipped with high specification Toshiba Esaote Colour Doppler ultrasound machines, including contrast imaging and elastography capability.
There are three vascular investigative/ interventional rooms which are shared by neuroradiology and vascular radiology. The interventional vascular suite was opened in October 1998. It has theatre specification and is used for aortic endograft procedures. A 8 bedded vascular/ day case unit was also opened in 2013.
The MRI Centre houses a Philips Intera 1.5 Tesla and Siemens 1.5 Tesla scanners, with a full range of coils, workstations and imaging software. A GE 750 3T University MRI scanner is also available for diagnostic and research purposes.
The Nuclear Medicine Department has a dual-headed GE gamma camera with CT attenuation/image fusion capability. In the Brocklehurst Building, there are 3 GE Prodigy DEXA scanners for bone mineral density imaging. In terms of dental imaging, there is a Planmeca panoramic dental x-ray unit in A&E, a dental cone-beam CT, as well as a Carestream intra-oral X-ray unit.
Hull Women and Children's unit was opened on the Hull Royal Infirmary site in early 2003. It houses the special care baby unit (SCBU) with mobile X-ray apparatus. The main department has 4 high specification Siemens and Toshiba Colour Doppler ultrasound scanners with 4D imaging capability on one of them.
The hospital with over 500 beds is located in Cottingham outside the City of Hull and within the East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley. The hospital is set in a pleasant environment and is being rapidly developed. The Radiation Medical Physics Department is based at this hospital and offers excellent physics teaching for FRCR part 1 preparation.
The main radiology department is a purpose built unit opened in February 2002 through a PFI scheme. The department has 4 ultrasound rooms, 2 screening rooms and 4 general rooms. There are also 5 fixed full field digital mammography units. Digital radiography is installed throughout the department.
There are two CT scanners and two MRI scanners (1.5 T Philips Achieva and GE 450W) with Spectroscopic and Diffusion weighted capability. In the oncology/radiotherapy unit, there are two wide bore CT scanners, six linacs (four with cone-beam CT), as well as two x-ray therapy unit for radiotherapy.
Nuclear medicine is in a separate department adjacent to the main radiology department and contains 2 dual headed gamma cameras, 1 of which has CT attenuation/image fusion capability. A state of the art fixed site PET-CT centre was opened in 2014. The Molecular Imaging Research Centre is expected to open in early 2018, with a GE GENtrace cyclotron capable of producing fluorine-18 and carbon-11 positron emitters.
The £65 million PFI Queen’s Centre for Oncology was officially opened and named by the Queen in 2009. There are two Philips CT scanners for radiotherapy planning.
The York Hospital is a well-equipped, modern unit of 700 beds providing all major services except cardiac surgery and inpatient neurosurgery. It serves a core population of 300,000 but provides services for up to 750,000 depending upon speciality.
The Main Department has 8 X-ray rooms and 4 ultrasound rooms. The CT department houses two CT scanners. In addition there are separate Nuclear Medicine, MRI and Breast Imaging facilities on the York Hospital site and access to the 3T MRI at York University. There is a dedicated vascular unit housing angiography and cardiology imaging facilities along with 13 designated radiology day beds. Additionally, there are 2 rooms in the A & E Department and a 3 Ultrasound rooms in the Antenatal Clinic.