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Awarded United Kingdom Services

Digital Histopathology Outsourced Reporting

Buyer: Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Published
24 March 2025
Estimated value
£500,000
Place of performance
UKH15
Procedure
Open procedure
Lots
1
Notice number
011010-2025
Reference
ocds-h6vhtk-042dcd
Official source
Official source

Description

There is a nationally identified shortage of consultant histopathologists, many NHS trusts have difficulty recruiting staff and the existing workforce is ageing. Currently at the Trust there is approximately 30 vacant consultant PAs, with 43% of our consultants over 55. This level of staffing puts a strain on all diagnostic specialities with the department struggling to meet agreed 2ww reporting targets. In addition, the Authority will expand its case load by approximately 20% in 2024. Given the situation described above, the Trust intends to outsource approximately 20k cases for digital reporting from November 2024 utilising the digital technology currently in deployment in the Lab, namely the existing LIMS (TCL), a range of whole slide digitisers and a shared instance of a cloud hosted Sectra PACS IDS7 system. The supplier will provide Services as follows: a) The provision of circa 30k digital histopathology diagnostic case reports per annum b) The provision of digitally enabled MDT support for approximately 20 % of these cases, plus holiday cover. The provision of a fully digital service that requires minimal manual intervention over and above the processes routinely used by t…

Awards

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Diagnexia UK Ltd — —

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