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Picture Archiving and 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 re-procuring 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. On this Basis NUH makes no guarantee about the level or regularity of any call off contracts under that part of the procured arrangements. Details in relation to the level of commitment for the Wave 1 Contract will be as set out in the contract documents. A prime supplier of PACS and RIS Services will enter into both the Wave 1 Contract and Wave 2 Framework. Further background information including the core principles relating to service requirements is available in a Memorandum of Information (MOI) provided within the PQQ documentation pack (www.nhssourcing.co.uk). All trusts in EMRAD currently have functioning PACS and RIS systems which, in most cases, are highly integrated, enterprise wide, and connected to external archives and have tools for exchanging images and reports such as Image Exchange Portal (IEP). These systems have been delivered to a high standard and operate 24/7, 365 days a year with high availability and limited service issues. Bidders are not dealing with “greenfield” sites and the services sought are aimed at improving on the existing baseline situation as detailed in the core principles outlined within the Memorandum of Information (MOI). This applies to both the Wave 1 Contract and the Wave 2 Framework. Further details of the contractual arrangements will be set out in the contract documents. The outline of the requirements under the Wave 1 and Wave 2 contracts include: — A PACS, RIS and Storage Managed Service Solution across the member Trusts in the East Midlands; — A scalable service which has high availability (99.99 % uptime) Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery abilities; — The ability to broadcast and receive images and reports to Trusts outside of the Consortium arrangement; — Operating replacement PACS and RIS systems before the end of June 2016 with improved PACS /RIS Service Contracts; — A PACS solution that is agnostic about image acquisition modalities, image display equipment, image storage and disaster recovery facilities and is capable of supporting additional services including cardiology, endoscopy and pathology; — Having access to image sharing capabilities that meet National Information Governance requirements, support patient care pathways, allow optimal use of radiology resources including radiologists, radiographers and PACS administration staff and open up the opportunities for more radical service redesign; — Incurring reduced operational overheads and costs for core PACS infrastructure, including image storage; — Using environmentally friendly, “Green”, solutions; and — Suffering minimum clinical and business disruption throughout the transition to the replacement solutions; — Ability of bidder to deploy across the Consortium to agreed timescales; — Partnership in the development of future services. A more detailed service requirement document will be included within the Service Specification during the following stages of the procurement exercise. The full PQQ documentation pack is available via: www.nhssourcing.co.uk

Picture Archiving and Communication Service (PACS) and Radiology Information Service (RIS).

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