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The Clive and Sylvia Richards Charity enables medical Charity Cobalt to support thousands of patients during COVID-19 pandemic
Cobalt Health (Cobalt) is a medical charity supporting the NHS with state-of-the art diagnostic imaging. Cobalt is also the leading provider of lung cancer screening, working in partnership with the NHS. The Clive and Sylvia Richards Charity … Read more
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
We are proud to support patients with specialist Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) scans of the prostate. These specialist scans enable a timely and accurate diagnosis, helping to … Read more
Cobalt publishes their ‘Working safely during COVID-19’ document
Cobalt has published a new document today which aims to provide information to patients, visitors and their employees about the ways in which the medical charity is working safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been developed based on the … Read more
Cobalt has an important role helping the NHS to tackle Coronavirus
Cobalt is supporting the NHS locally and nationally during the coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency. The Imaging Centre on Thirlestaine Road in Cheltenham is providing urgent scans for cancer patients to enable them to continue with their treatment … Read more
1,000th participant completed Lung Health Check!
Cobalt works in partnership with Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and Siemens Healthineers to provide the first commissioned lung cancer screening programme in the UK. This week the 1,000th participant completed the Lung Health Check … Read more
‘Lung Health Checks’ to help improve lung cancer survival rates
Clinicians at Wythenshawe Hospital, part of Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust launched a new initiative to help improve early diagnosis for lung cancer and other respiratory conditions across North and East Manchester at an exciting … Read more
Cobalt and Siemens Healthineers are working to develop mobile lung cancer screening
A recently announced partnership with Siemens Healthineers, Cobalt Health and Lamboo Mobile Medical will provide a mobile lung cancer screening service in the community. This partnership involves supporting the NHS in Manchester to deliver a … Read more
A day in the life of Mobile MRI Radiographer, Áine
I was drawn to work at Cobalt after attending one of their MRI in Practice physics courses. The Charity works very closely with leading scanning equipment suppliers. Three new MRI scanners and a new PET/CT system since I started working here … Read more
Cobalt install state of the art Cone Beam CT
Cobalt were excited by the recent handover of the state of the art Cone Beam CT with Carestream. The room it is situated in comes complete with ambient lighting for a more comfortable patient experience. Pictured – Left to right (Charlie … Read more