Page 49 - Data Unit News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Earth observation chief Dr Josef Aschbacher takes reins at European Space Agency Also: Rocket Lab rounds out a busy year, OneWeb returns to constellation work, NASA ploughs ahead with Orion Richard Speed Tue 22 Dec 2020 // 14:30 UTC Share Copy In brief Dr Josef Aschbacher will succeed Jan Wörner as director general of the European Space Agency once Wörner's term ends on 30 June 2021. Aschbacher, currently ESA director of Earth Observation Programmes and head of ESRIN, ESA's centre for Earth Observation near Rome, had been the frontrunner for the job. His appointment ...

Worcestershire Royal Hospital THE county’s hospital trust has said it is trying to accelerate the return of as many non-Covid services as possible, after figures showed a 32 per cent drop in the number of scans being carried out by the county's hospitals. The latest data released showed that between April and September this year, 139,895 scans were carried out in the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust compared to 206,015 in the same period in 2019.That works out as 66,120 fewer scans, a drop of 32.09 per cent. However, Matthew Hopkins, chief executive of Worcestershire Acute Hos...

Scots waiting weeks for life-saving scans as non-Covid NHS services grind to a halt Health boards across Scotland are failing to offer patients vital diagnostic scans within the maximum six-week waiting period imposed by ministers. Updated Thousands of patients are waiting longer than six weeks for potentially life-saving scans Our Politics newsletter is now daily. Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish politics news sent straight to your inbox.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send ...

THE county’s hospital trust has said it is trying to 'accelerate' the return of as many non-Covid services as possible, after figures showed a 32 per cent drop in the number of scans being carried out by the county's hospitals. The latest data released showed that between April and September this year, 139,895 scans were carried out in the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust compared to 206,015 in the same period in 2019.That works out as 66,120 fewer scans, a drop of 32.09 per cent. However, Matthew Hopkins, chief executive of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “A...

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is catching up with diagnostic scans. THE Covid pandemic has caused diagnostic scanning on the Isle of Wight to fall behind — with fewer scans taking place and more people being added to the waiting list. An investigation conducted by the BBC's Shared Data Unit has found across England, during the height of the pandemic more than four million fewer scans were carried out compared to the same period last year. Between April and September 2019, data from NHS England showed 103 NHS trusts carried out 13.5 million scans of all types, including MRI, CT scans and...