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Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS
Trust goes live with Sectra
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has marked an important milestone in connecting busy radiologists
across large parts of South East England, following the successful go live of Sectra’s enterprise imaging
solution.
The trust is the sixth NHS
organisation in the South
East 2 Imaging Network to
deploy Sectra’s enterprise
imaging solution. Commonality
of technology now in place
opens opportunities for clinical
collaboration across multiple
locations, and brings with it the
means to further enhance care
and safety for patients.
Trusts involved now share
a single instance for radiology
imaging. This means that imaging,
such as x-rays, CT scans, and
MRIs, are now instantaneously
available to professionals across
the six participating NHS trusts.
Improved access to critical
diagnostic information captured at
each organisation has implications
for safer and better-informed
decision making at the point of
care, and in the delivery of high
quality diagnostic reporting.
It also lays the foundations
for workforce development
at a regional level – with new
possibilities for harnessing scarce
resource where it is needed most.
Trusts that have already
bene昀椀tted from deployment in the
imaging network include Ashford
and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust, East Sussex
Healthcare NHS Trust, Queen
Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation
Trust, Royal Surrey NHS
Foundation Trust, and University
Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation
Trust.
Several trusts in the region
have also deployed the digital
pathology module of Sectra’s
enterprise imaging solution.
Though this module was not part
of the agreement at Surrey and
Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust,
trust imaging specialists will still
be able to bene昀椀t from visibility of
pathology cases from elsewhere
in the region, to complement their
reporting.
Tony Newman-Sanders,
Consultant Radiologist and Chief
of Cancer and Diagnostics at
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare
NHS Trust, said: “We are placing
modern technology into the hands
of our healthcare professionals,
and creating the foundations
on which we can build imaging
services that meet the needs of
our patients into the future. This
has potential to deliver rapid
impact for safer care, and to
maximise the use of our specialist
diagnostic expertise.”
The deployment, which comes
after a previously signed contract
with Sectra, follows thorough
work to consolidate imaging at
the trust, evaluate the safe use of
Sectra’s solution, and to ensure
that it is con昀椀gured around trust
work昀氀ows, and the needs of
healthcare professionals and
patients.
Jane Rendall, UK and Ireland
managing director for Sectra,
said: “Hard work has gone into
making sure that this deployment
is successful. The potential for
enhanced patient care that comes
with it is highly signi昀椀cant at a
time when diagnostics is so high
on the national agenda. It has
been gratifying to collaborate with
teams at the trust, and across the
region, in delivering against their
objectives, and I look forward
to ongoing collaboration as the
future of diagnostics continues to
evolve.”
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