FOI 7661 - Outsourced Teleradiology Reporting Services

Date: 07 November 2022 to 08 November 2025

  1. Does the Trust make use of outsourced tele-radiology reporting services for routine radiology reporting? 
  2. If you do make use of tele-radiology reporting, please provide the names of the providers of each service (on-call and elective separately please)? 
  3. If you do make use of tele-radiology reporting services, please provide the annual volumes for both 2021 and for 2022 sent to each provider, broken into the following:
    1. Overnight on-call
    2. Elective Reporting (MRI, CT)
    3. Plain Film Reporting
    4. Split into each hospital within the Trust 
  1. Start date, duration and end date of any contracts with tele-radiology providers? 
  2. Was the contract procured via a framework (direct award, which framework?), mini-tender, or ITT procurement process? 
  • Request ID:
    7661
  • Category:
    Trust - Service Data
  • Response:

     November 2022

    1. Does the Trust make use of outsourced tele-radiology reporting services for routine radiology reporting? Yes
    2. If you do make use of tele-radiology reporting, please provide the names of the providers of each service (on-call and elective separately please)? TMC and Medica
    3. If you do make use of tele-radiology reporting services, please provide the annual volumes for both 2021 and for 2022 sent to each provider, broken into the following:
      1. Overnight on-call
      2. Elective Reporting (MRI, CT)
      3. Plain Film Reporting
      4. Split into each hospital within the Trust

    2021
    80 Image acquisitions CT
    7931 out of hours reporting CT
    180 Image acquisitions MRI
    28 out of hours reporting MRI
    180 PET CT image acquisitions and reports

    2022
    8337 image acquisitions and reports CT
    174 CT colonography
    59 out of hours reporting MRI

    1. Start date, duration and end date of any contracts with tele-radiology providers? The contracts have ended, currently doing new award.
    2. Was the contract procured via a framework (direct award, which framework?), mini-tender, or ITT procurement process? Will be via framework SBS/Supply chain.