Press release
30 October 2025
Addenbrooke’s CT department has seen its first scanner wrapped in nature-themed vinyls.
Jodi Gooding, a Senior Radiographer at Addenbrooke’s, said the aim of the design – as with the MRI Scanner which was wrapped back in August last year – was to ‘bring the outside in’.
As part of the design, the ring of the Siemens scanner was wrapped earlier this year in a green, leafy design against the backdrop of a bright blue sky – with the walls of the windowless room covered with a photo of a bluebell wood, showing sun bursting through the branches of the trees.
Jodie said that because the scanner is not enclosed as in the case of an MRI scanner, most patients do go through with their scan first time. However, there have been cases in the past where patients haven’t been able to complete their scan or really struggled to do so.
“It’s made a huge difference to patients. We don’t have any windows so there is no natural light in here so people always comment about that because now it feels like we do have natural light. It makes the room look much lighter and less clinical. And it appears less scary. I think for the adults it is much more calming but for the children it feels less clinical.”
The wrap was funded by supporters of Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT). Addenbrooke’s has a total of five CT scanners onsite and two remote, with the department applying for more funds from ACT to wrap the next scanner.
David Biddle, CT Service Manager, said: “The newly ‘wrapped’ CT room and scanner provides a very calm environment that helps put patients at ease during their scan.”
He said approximately 900 patients, per month, benefit from the generous donation from ACT and the department as a whole scans almost 8,000 patients per month. Since April, when this first scanner was wrapped, it has performed around 4,900 scans.
ACT is the official charity for Addenbrooke’s and funds cutting-edge equipment, specialist staff, extra comforts and vital research above and beyond what the NHS is able to provide and is raising money to help build both the Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital and the Cambridge Children’s Hospital.
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