PACS

Tender description

Picture Archiving & Communications Systems (PACS) and Radiology Information Systems (RIS) have been used extensively across the East Midlands to radically improve the delivery of patient care by providing rapid access to appropriate clinical images from the point of care in multiple settings. PACS is now well established and part of the essential fabric of health care delivery across East Midlands, and the wider UK. The majority of trusts in the East Midlands area are currently operating their core PACS under existing contractual arrangements that are due to cease between 2014 and 2016. On the basis that the current EMRAD trusts were faced with a similar objective of reprocuring a PACS system in the same timescales a Strategic Outline Case (SOC), subsequently developed into an Outline Business Case, identified a joint procurement (administered by NUH) of a single contract to deliver these services (the Wave 1 Contract), as the most effective way forward leading to the establishment of EMRAD in April 2013. The Consortium is one of the largest in the UK and currently consists of the following member Trusts: •Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (CRH) •Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (KGH) •Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (SFH) •Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) •Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust (NGH) •University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) and •United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULH) As noted, additional NHS and Foundation Trusts in the East Midlands may join EMRAD during the procurement process. Moreover, NUH intends to procure a Framework Agreement which can used by any NHS body in England to call-off services (Wave 2 Framework). For the avoidance of doubt the framework agreement will be let on a non exclusive basis and its use will be completely optional for any NHS Body. Please refer to the PQQ documentation for further details.