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AXREM Welcomes Announcement of £250 million in NHS technology to modernise diagnostics

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The NHS will receive £248 million to modernise diagnostics and help tackle patient waiting lists.

  • Government injects nearly £250 million to digitise diagnostics care across the NHS using the latest technology
  • Funding will allow hospital labs to share patient results, tests and scans more easily and quickly between different hospitals and doctors, reducing the time it takes to diagnose a health problem
  • It aims to drive up efficiency by saving staff time, and comes as part of the government’s ambition to tackle waiting lists and speed up routine treatment for patients

The NHS will receive £248 million over the next year to invest in technology that will deliver more diagnostic tests, checks and scans to help provide faster diagnosis of a health condition, earlier treatment and reduce waiting lists.

The investment will reduce the administrative burden on NHS staff so they can analyse more tests, checks and scans while also reducing the turnaround time from a patient taking a test to receiving a diagnosis and then starting treatment.

Diagnostics services across the NHS will be digitalised using the latest technology to improve the way tests, images and results can be shared across computer systems in hospitals, labs and GP surgeries. It means the nurses, doctors and other clinicians caring for a patient can access these results more quickly and easily, even if they are working from different settings.

Sally Edgington, AXREM Director said “This funding is vital to help tackle the backlog, there are so many new technologies that can offer better patient care and experience, diagnose and treat patients faster and many new technologies also offer long term cost savings. AXREM members are ready and able to help so I am pleased to see this announcement today, and look forward to finding out more over the coming days and weeks”.

Read in full: £250 million in NHS technology to modernise diagnostics – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)