NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) has agreed on a 10-year contract with medical IT imaging company Sectra for the country’s NHS boards to use its cloud based enterprise imaging service.
The Sectra One Cloud software-as-a-service will be used by all 14 territorial health boards and NHS Golden Jubilee, which hosts the Scottish National Radiology Reporting Service.
The organisations will utilise the radiology, breast imaging and orthopaedics modules available through the service.
Sectra said it will engage with national and local teams across NHS Scotland to deliver the new agreement, which will replace a contract with Scotland’s current supplier that is due to end in 2026. Implementation will involve the migration of more than 55 million radiology studies to a single instance of the service.
AI potential
All of NHS Scotland’s acute radiology, orthopaedic and breast screening services will be covered by the new contract, which also creates the potential to extend support to additional diagnostic services in the future and allow the exploration of further technology. Sectra cited the example integrating AI applications into radiology workflows.
Chief executive of NSS Mary Morgan said: “Our new partnership with Sectra will provide Scotland’s NHS radiology teams with an enterprise imaging service that will support our professionals as they deliver efficient and effective diagnoses for patients. The service creates additional potential to support the direction set out in the new Scotland Radiology Model and opens up further possibilities around enhanced cross-site working.”
Update: NSS has published a contract award notice indicating that the value of the agreement could be up to £137 million.
Update on 22.12.23
