The service provides:
- 24-hour acute care for the Emergency Department and hospital wards
- community and outpatient radiology services between 8am and 4:30pm Monday to Friday.
Digital technology allows for easy image storage, fast reporting by medical staff and the sharing of images with hospitals and health professionals involved in your care.
The team provides examinations and procedures using:
- general x-ray, mobile x-ray equipment and image intensifiers
- ultrasound
- fluoroscopy
- interventional radiology
- computed tomography (CT)
- magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Find out more about scans and x-rays, including potential health risks.
Scans and x-rays
Who provides your care
- Medical imaging technologists (MITs) or radiographers perform x-ray, barium, mammography, CT and MRI examinations.
- Sonographers perform ultrasound examinations.
- Radiology nurses provide patient care and specialist support for procedures.
- Radiologists are the specialist doctors who interpret images and perform interventional procedures
- Radiology assistants aid MIT, nurses and sonographers on the day of your imaging.
- Radiography and sonography students assist with examinations.