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Highlights of this issue include:

• The world goes HD - Video South cuts through the jargon to explain the benefits of High Definition.
• HD in use - The new technology's use in laparoscopic surgery, gastroenterology, cardiology and education.
• RCS Eagle project - The second phase of the College's ambitious surgical training installation is officially opened.

Highlights of this issue include:

• Video South completes major audio-visual installation for RSC - Video South carry out the most extensive audio-visual systems' installation yet embarked upon by the College
• Combined fluoroscopy/MRI suite makes medical history - Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children is making medical history by providing fluoroscopy and MRI screening in the same suite.
• Multi-screen system for state-of-the-art Wessex Cardiac unit - An innovative multi-screen display system, installed at Southampton University Hospital Trust's Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, enables cardiologists and students to view the latest interventional procedures live, with up to 12 images available, including video, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, EP, navigation, MRI and PACS.

Highlights of this issue include:

• Sussex Cancer Network - Video South has provided quality videoconferencing infrastructures for a number of health trusts. The latest is in Sussex, southern England.
• University videoconferencing - Higher education in the UK is changing rapidly. High quality videoconferencing can be fitted to lecture theatres to allow any lecture to be attended on multiple sites.
• Endoscopy training at UCH - A highly developed new system, which incorporates modernised imaging and the latest audiovisual technology.

Highlights of this issue include:

Highlights of this issue include:

• PACS – addressing the challenges of a new era in x-ray archiving, display, accessibility and the implementing the change from film to electronic display and archiving.
• Frimley Park Hospital – merging videoconferencing with live television to implement a high quality on-site network for live procedures at this leading postgraduate education centre.
• Lancashire and South Cumbria Cancer Network – developing a high quality videoconference infrastructure to satisfy the requirements of the Cancer Network, working with both the Strategic Health Authority and the hospital trusts.

Highlights of this issue include:

• New conference room for the RSM - state-of-the-art facilities for the RSM’s largest conference room that caters for a demanding and prestigious range of users.
• Hull and York Medical School – the design and construction of an integrated high-technology lecture theatre to deliver lectures for two sites some 40 miles apart.
• Touch panels – the latest developments in touch panels: improved size, graphics and ease and range of uses.

Highlights of this issue include:

• New teaching facilities for Edinburgh - a new shared site for the new Medical School and the new Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh at which Video South have designed and installed two lecture theatres and seven seminar rooms creating a stand alone teaching facility that can be linked to remote national as well as international sites.
• Cancer networks and multi-site MDT meetings - videoconferencing solutions to enable multi-site regular MDT meetings.
• Cardiology at Great Ormond Street - a state of the art system enabling Dr Philip Bonhoeffer to demonstrate specialist cardiac catheterisation in children to sites in the UK and worldwide,
• Telemedicine for remote diagnosis - use of a mobile outpatient telemedicine trolley allowing a remote specialist to support local patient diagnosis.

Highlights of this issue include:

• RCP opens new Jerwood Education Centre - state-of-the-art education and training centre offering five flexible training/seminar rooms with A/V, videoconferencing and teaching equipment.
• Telemedicine for cancer MDTs - the value of high-grade videoconferencing in the context of regular MDT meetings.
• Telemedicine in Jersey - a new mobile, outpatient trolley allows patients attending clinic at the local hospital an 'online' referral with an expert at a tertiary centre without leaving the island.
• Psychiatric observation units - high tech observation suites to improve psychiatric care

Highlights of this issue include:

• New system for Aintree Hospital NHS Trust - lecture theatre and seminar room in new Clinical Sciences Centre connected to five fully equipped operating theatres, with the addition of a new videoconferencing suite, two endoscopy rooms, a catheter lab, a radiology seminar room and a link to outpatients at a remote site.
• New telemedicine trolley Video South introduce a new telemedicine trolley initially developed for cardiology uses but updated for other clinical purposes such as ultrasound, endoscopy and all types of clinical examination in patients.
• Tandberg CODECS
• Systems for surgery, psychiatry, teaching & telemedicine

Highlights of this issue include:

• The new Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research
• Castle Hill Hospital installs a new video network
• Teletraining in the fight against bowel cancer - live television links connect training systems at five centres around the country. The aim is to provide a national training scheme for doctors and nurses in the fight against bowel cancer.
• Telemedicine in cardiology

• IRTUS Radiology Teaching Network
• The Wessex Cardiothoracic Unit
• Five years of MATTU
• Videoconferencing for the BIR