The state-of-the-art technology has been installed in the Interventional Radiology Suite at the hospital.

Charlotte Macianskis, interventional section head at Peterborough City Hospital, said: ‘Over the last five years our workload has steeply increased by 20% to meet the demands of the service, 723 Interventional procedures were booked in the Interventional Theatre in 2023.

‘This new technology is one of the first of its kind to be installed in the UK and is highly praised for its performance in both image quality and low procedural doses.'

Interventional Radiology is sometimes referred to as Image Guided Surgery as it uses the latest imaging technology to look inside patients and perform minimally invasive procedures.

It is commonly confused with key-hole surgery but the holes made by surgeons are even smaller than key-hole surgery.

The vast majority of procedures can be performed under local anaesthetic or sedation with only a very few complex cases requiring a general anaesthetic.

This aids in the outcome for patients as it means their procedure will require less screening time and the new technology will assist the radiologist in the most complex of cases.