EDINBURGH, Scotland, July 5, 2022
/PRNewswire/ -- Scotland is on its way to becoming home to the
UK's largest connected laboratory medicine network, following the
appointment of Citadel Health as the supplier for NHS
Scotland's Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
framework.
The new software will connect NHS laboratory medicine labs and
hospitals across Scotland. The
network has the potential to link and streamline complex clinical
processes to improve the patient experience for the population of
Scotland.
Laboratory Medicine provides laboratory services to primary and
secondary care centres across Scotland. Laboratories across the majority of
Boards perform over 100 million tests per year and employ over
4,000 staff. Laboratories provide a 24/7 clinical and medical
laboratory service and a comprehensive range of investigations
including decentralised testing sites. Laboratory tests play a part
in 70 – 80% of all health care decisions affecting diagnosis of
disease, treatment, and monitoring response to treatment.
LIMS is crucial to the function of Laboratory Medicine as it is
used to result and report all primary, secondary and tertiary
laboratory requests received by Laboratory Medicine. It also
provides capability to create automation of workflows, integration
of instruments, and management of samples and their associated
information. LIMS systems interface with several key local and
national healthcare systems, for example:
- Patient Administration Systems
- Electronic Patient Records
- Analytical Middleware
- Electronic Order Communication Systems
- Regional and National Systems
The 10-year partnership with Citadel Health has the prospect of
dramatically enhancing diagnostic capability across NHS Scotland
through collaboration, national standardisation and improved
systems.
By managing more than 100 million specimen and test requests
processed each year by NHS Scotland's pathology labs, the system
has the potential to improve equality in patient access, cutting
duplication and freeing up clinicians to manage resources within
the network. Citadel Health's Evolution vLab software
already supports NHS Trusts in England and Wales following recent tender wins.
The contract with Citadel Health reflects the global health tech
leader's proven ability to operate seamlessly across vast
geographies, including the Southern Hemisphere's largest single
instance public health LIMS.
Mary Morgan, Chief Executive at
NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) said:
"Enabling health and social care transformation is one of our
strategic priorities and this new partnership with Citadel Health
represents a positive step for laboratory medicine in Scotland – where focusing on transformational
change will lead to improved patient experience and greater
efficiency, collaboration and connection across NHS Scotland
boards.
"Our National Procurement team in NSS conducts national
procurements and assists local implementation to help NHS Scotland
boards achieve the best value for money on goods and services to
support the vital work of teams across NHS Scotland."
Mike Gray, Laboratory Service
Manager, NHS Lothian and Chair of the LIMS implementation
programme, said:
"The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for seamless
interfacing across systems and the ability to quickly pull data
from an efficient and effective LIMS on a national scale, so we
sought a new LIMS supplier. Being able to share standardised
results in real time will enable effective diagnosis for patients
across the whole of the NHS Scotland, paving the pathway for
improved patient outcomes.
"All boards involved look forward to working in partnership with
Citadel Health to ensure the new LIMS is developed to meet NHS
Scotland requirements and safely deployed across all pathology
laboratories and services."
Stephen Lynch, Executive General
Manager at Citadel Health, said:
"We are delighted to be partnering with NHS Scotland Boards
eager to embrace our approach of delivering essential laboratory
services and improving efficiency and streamlining standardisation.
The growing demand for seamless clinical collaboration across
diagnostic networks to improve patient outcomes illustrates why we
remain the natural choice to evolve digital health solutions across
the UK."
Impact in numbers
- Almost 6m population
- 100 million specimens and tests each year
- 93 labs in 29 geographic locations networked
- 3700+ clinical users
About Citadel Health
Citadel Health gives clinical teams the tools to connect,
collaborate and optimise clinical pathways. Our deeply specialised
health software helps modernise clinical workflows, transforming
decisions, operations and quality to improve patient access and
outcomes at scale. Visit citadelhealth.co.uk
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