AXREM Launches Manifesto
05 July 2022
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Over the last 3 years AXREM has evolved, broadening the membership of the association, and growing our membership and offering. This development has enabled us to expand all areas of the associations work and created a more focused and strategic approach to our activities.
We are pleased to launch the AXREM Manifesto, a document that sets out our 5 key priorities for the next 2 years.
AXREM members supply most diagnostic medical imaging and radiotherapy equipment installed in UK hospitals. In doing so, our member companies and their employees work side by side with Radiologists, Radiographers and Practitioners, Cardiologists, Interventionalists, Oncologists, Physicists, and a wide range of healthcare professionals to deliver excellence in patient care using our technologies, working to regulated standards whilst continuously developing and creating innovative new solutions.
AXREM consults with a wide range of stakeholders including clinicians, government, procurement organisations, professional bodies, and NHS bodies. Members’ products and solutions create efficiencies in patient pathways, improve clinical outcomes and in turn deliver value-based healthcare.
AXREM members technologies play a critical role in the diagnosing and treatment of disease. Any patient visiting an Accident & Emergency Department will have experienced AXREM members technologies as they play a key role in the triage and diagnosing of injuries and disease. Through provision of diagnostic equipment such as Computed Tomography (CT) Scanners, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Ultrasound, Digital X-Ray and Image Guided Therapy solutions (Interventional and cardiac catheterisation).
AXREM members solutions provide insight to clinicians and are pivotal to diagnosis, treatment choices and plans. Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET CT), Linear Accelerators (LINACs) and Proton Beam Therapy are used in the staging and delivery of radiotherapy treatment to Oncology patients and are critical to improving cancer outcomes. Imaging IT Solutions such as PACS, RIS and Archiving aided by Artificial Intelligence provide the backbone for Diagnostic and Treatment planning, pulling together imaging and information and making them immediately available for access by clinicians and health professionals across the healthcare enterprise.
AXREM members technology features in most patient care pathways and thus sit at the core of the Health & Care Act 2022 which builds on the proposals for legislative change set out by NHS England in its Long-Term Plan. AXREM members technologies also play a primary role in screening programmes such as the Breast Screening Programme and Targeted Lung Health Check.
Access to and availability of AXREM members technology to healthcare providers is crucial in achieving positive healthcare outcomes and making a positive contribution to the health of the nation.
AXREM has identified five strategic priorities for the period 2022 to 2024 which have a direct impact on healthcare delivery:
- Recovery from Covid backlog
- Influencing future healthcare delivery
- Sustainability
- Credentialling
- Cyber Security
You can read more about these priorities in the AXREM manifesto either on our website here: https://www.axrem.org.uk/resource/axrem-manifesto
Or by scanning this QR code which takes you to the document:
AXREM and its members will support healthcare providers meet the unique challenges of the post pandemic era through providing innovation, services, technology and workflow solutions which increase productivity and efficiency.
With the pace of innovation and the increasing backlog, we believe this can only be achieved by having a consultative relationship with healthcare providers and stakeholders and ensuring that procurement is open, fair and transparent. We wish to deliver Sustainable solutions and services to support healthcare providers achieve their Net Zero ambitions. We wish to reduce and eliminate the unnecessary cost and bureaucracy associated with Credentialling schemes and will seek to support healthcare providers to have resilient and cyber secure IT systems which include AXREM members solutions.
On publishing the manifesto AXREM Director, Sally Edgington said “We have been working on this document since before the pandemic and paused the project and reassessed our organisational priorities more recently. I must pass my thanks to Charlie McCaffrey who recently retired from AXREM member company Philips Healthcare for all his hard work on the manifesto”.
Sally added “This is an important moment for AXREM, especially being able to launch the paper at UKIO, as we have spent the last year going through an organisational transformation, and this is another key step in ensuring that we are the leading industry voice for diagnostic imaging, radiotherapy and the associated IT and AI products and services. I am very proud to lead the work of AXREM and continue to be inspired by our members and the future plans we have”.