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The Radiology Department provides diagnostic imaging services to the people of the Wellington region. It is one of the DHB’s busiest departments. Around 85 per cent of patients that come through the hospital doors of Wellington Hospital visit Radiology. That’s about 270 patients using its service each day. That number comprises around 100 inpatients, 100 outpatients and 70 Emergency Department referrals.

While the main department is based at the Newtown site, some x-ray services are provided at Kenepuru Community Hospital.

Radiology will be the first department to migrate into the new Wellington Regional Hospital in early November 2008 and will be located on Level 2 of the new building. At this stage, outpatients will either access the new Department from the underground carpark using the Green lift or will come in the existing front entrance through the Clinical Service block using the lift. Access will also become available via the atrium entrance off Riddiford Street once the atrium is opened.

Click here to download a map showing how to get to Radiology in the new Wellington Regional Hospital.

A range of state of the art Radiology equipment will be commissioned for the new Department including;

• An MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanner.
• A digital mammography machine for breast x-rays.
• Three ultrasound machines.
• Two cardiac catheter laboratories - examination rooms with diagnostic imaging equipment used to support the catheterisation procedure – investigation of the heart’s blood vessels.
• A Fluoroscopy room - fluoroscopy is an imaging technique used to obtain real-time moving images of the internal structures of a patient through the use of a fluoroscope – for instance the swallowing motion.
• A dual laboratory (cardiology/angiography room) which allows electrophysiological studies; insertion of pacemakers and vascular studies of the body and limbs.

Radiology provides the following services:

• General (plain film) imaging
• Angiography
• Cardiac Catheterisation
• CT Scanning
• Fluoroscopy / Screening
• IVU (Intravenous Urogram)
• Mammography
• MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
• Nuclear Medicine
• Ultrasound

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