Project to Help NHS Digital Pathology Accelerate
The National Pathology Imaging Co-operative, NPIC, opens opportunities for NHS trusts throughout the country to digitise pathology and improve patient diagnoses, following new funding and expanding the usage of Sectra's digital pathology solution and VNA.
A multi-million pound NHS initiative that already spans six trusts is expanding to help laboratories across different parts of the UK digitise their pathology services. Big wins are expected for patients and busy healthcare professionals.
Manx Care, Isle of Man were looking for solutions to replace an outdated legacy paging system that resulted in failed and delayed messaging impacting emergency response, with a modern progressive method of communication. To address this challenge, Manx Care embarked on a project with Alcidion to deploy Smartpage Clinical, with a view to introduce Smartpage Non-Clinical and Smartpage Response in later project phases. 
NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has unveiled 'The Provision of AI Software in Neuroscience for Stroke Decision Making Support' procurement framework agreement, the only one of its kind in the UK specifically for the analysis of images for the detection of ischaemic or haemorrhagic strokes. 
Buddy Healthcare and KARL STORZ have joined forces in a strategic partnership. The goal of this cooperation is to extend added value to digital care pathways. Fully digitized and automated patient care pathways provide high-quality and modern clinical workflow management to help clinics in improving patient outcomes and optimize clinical processes. 
Surgeons across several NHS trusts have improved surgery waiting times and reduced A&E admissions, especially for the highest risk patients, after successful clinical trials of an AI decision support model that is helping to make prioritisation safer and more equitable for patients. The approach is now seeing uptake in dozens of NHS trusts, as integrated care systems prepare to implement elective recovery plans.