Foundation's generosity buys scanner for practice (From Basingstoke Gazette)
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Foundation's generosity buys scanner for practice
10:41am Tuesday 4th December 2007 in Local By Jen Rivett
FROM LEFT: Dr Howard Barns, Rita Mooney, general manager at Tylney Hall, and Graeme Bateman, of the Rotherwick Foundation and managing director of Elite Hotels, with the new ultrasound scanner donated by the foundation to Hook and Hartley Wintney Medical
A SURGERY has received an important piece of medical equipment - thanks to a charity's generous grant.
The Hook and Hartley Wintney Medical Partnership, which has branches in Chapter Terrace, Hartley Wintney, and Reading Road, Hook, received a £20,000 ultrasound scanner from the Rotherwick Foundation.
The machine will allow the practice to scan patients before they are referred to hospital.
Doctor Howard Barns was presented with the scanner by Graeme Bateman, trustee of the foundation.
Dr Barns will initially use the scanner, but plans are also in place for it to be used by a sonographer in a gynaecology clinic at the Hook surgery next year.
The GP said: "The main advantage will be that our patients will be able to get ultrasound scans done more locally and, hopefully, a little quicker, when we have the scanner fully up and running.
"An ultrasound scan is an increasingly important diagnostic tool. As the hospitals are very much at full capacity and struggling hard to meet demand, anything we can do at the surgery will help."
Dr Barns hopes that, in the future, the surgery will also be able to screen for abdominal aortic aneurysms, which, if undetected, can rupture and prove fatal.
The Rotherwick Foundation provides financial support to education, public health, religion and other charitable projects.
It is the main charity beneficiary of three hotels - Tylney Hall, in Rotherwick, the Grand Hotel, in Eastbourne, East Sussex, and Ashdown Park, in Wych Cross, East Sussex.
