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University sets up special training system for ultrasound

The University of Cumbria is setting up a new training course to help deal with a shortage of of trained sonographers, the staff who perform ultrasound scans.

Ultrasound scan in progress
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Special training rooms will be set up at hospitals in the Morecambe Bay area and the Ellsemere Port Hospital, and an existing simulation room will be used as well, with university and clinical staff travelling between the locations.

Charles Sloan, who leads on medical sciences at the university, said some hospitals had fewer than half the sonographers they needed, and overall the NHS was 9% short.