New CT scanner for Jersey heart patients (UK)

Jersey heart patients will no longer have to go to the UK for tests after a new CT scanner was fitted at the General Hospital. Until now, patients had to go to the UK for a coronary angiogram, a more invasive procedure where tubes were inserted into their heart arteries. The Health Department said the new scanner gives a 3D reconstruction of the heart arteries in a procedure that takes less than 15 minutes. It said it will save money and lives. Dr Andrew Mitchell, consultant cardiologist, said: "The image quality of the new scanner is amazing and for the first time allows us to look inside patients' heart arteries with incredible resolution." - BBC