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Chesterfield Royal Hospital has become the sixth NHS Trust in the East Midlands to go live with a system that allows the region’s hospitals to share patient images, scans and x-rays regardless of which hospital they were taken in.

Known as the PACS Portal, the cloud-based image sharing system is good news for patients, allowing clinicians to access scans and images from other trusts, in real time and at a distance, to make critical decisions about a patient’s care quickly and safely.

Renal researchers at NUH are the first in Europe to successfully offer patients a new treatment for a rare kidney disease which affects just 100 people in Nottingamshire.

When Monica Korpal’s husband was diagnosed with cancer, she was triggered to give something back to the NHS, specifically Nottingham University Hospitals where she has been treated for over 40 years for a rare blood disorder, leaving her in need of two units of blood every three weeks.

We recognise that there is a lot in the media at the moment about our hospitals as discussions have been taking place about our community moving into Tier 3.