In 2013/14, a generous donation of £250,000 from the Westfield Health Charitable Trust funded a digital X-ray in the new Outpatients Department.
The state-of-the-art system means that X-rays can be available in just four seconds, while the patient is still on the X-ray table. This additional X-ray in Outpatients also helps improve the patient experience, as they do not need to move around the hospital for imaging.
Each scan has been turned into a sensory experience. Special lighting and sound effects transform the X-ray room into a magical forest, helping to calm young patients. To create the special effects, the X-ray department worked with AGFA, the manufacturers of the machinery, and Artfelt.
The system is estimated to be used over 15,000 times each year to take digital images of young outpatients arriving with potential bone problems in the hands, wrists, arms, feet, legs, pelvis, and spine, as well as those needing chest X-rays to examine their lungs and abdomen.
Graham Moore, Chairman of the Westfield Health Charitable Trust, said: “We have been a long-standing supporter of Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity and we are delighted to be able to make this donation for such a fantastic piece of equipment. Sheffield Children’s Hospital is a wonderful facility and we are very lucky to have it in the city. I really hope the digital X-ray system will benefit patients for years to come.”
