Software package and information systems

Tender description

The West Midlands Cancer Alliance (WMCA) operates across 6 Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) and includes NHS Trusts/Foundation Trusts (FT) from across the region. The WMCA serves a population of some 5.8 million people. Within the WMCA there are four tertiary referral cancer treatment centres at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, Royal Wolverhampton Hospital NHS Trust, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB). These tertiary referral centres would form the hubs for centralisation and governance for an infrastructure of a diagnostic digital pathology service with a smaller number providing services for highly specialised tumours within the West Midlands catchment area. On behalf of the WMCA, UHB is procuring systems/services to implement, install and configure a multi-site diagnostic digital pathology system solution to replace current histological services. The fully automated acquisition by a scanner of high resolution digital images of glass slides containing processed and stained human tissue. Digital images must be capable of being produced, as a minimum, at the equivalent of 20 x and 40x magnification. For more detailed requirements, please refer to the accompanying Outline Specification. Once acquired, images should be available for review in less than 90 seconds. The image management system (IMS) must integrate seamlessly with extant patient and laboratory information systems. The IMS must be capable of multi-site connectivity. The IMS should provide for high performance short-term recall of digital images and appropriate case history and for affordable long-term capacity storage. For more detailed requirements please refer to the accompanying Outline Specification.