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I hope that with the exit of the contracts from the LSP (local service provider) framework
and the national framework that we’ve had, that we carry on with the impetus and with
the service improvement changes that PACS has brought.
And I very much hope that we see PACS develop further, so it isn’t just radiology images,
it isn’t just your CT scans, your chest x-rays, etc. That we really do work towards
having a patient’s pathology images, their retinal images if they’re diabetic, and
we extend it, we actually extend the scope and really use everything that PACS has to
offer.
That’s going to be a big ask for some institutions because it will require them to digitise bits
of their service that they haven’t yet thought about digitising. But that’s what I hope
for the future, and I hope we see seamless integration, we need to be able to view images
regardless of which archive they are held on, which PACS system they are held on. Because
patients are mobile, they move between institutions, they may have healthcare near their place
of work, they may have healthcare when they are on holiday, and those institutions won’t
be the same as the hospital which looks after them where they live.
So we need to make that seamless and we need to really make that quick as well, and I think
– I would
hope – that’s where we‘re heading. There are some risks there inevitably, but I would
hope that is where we’re going.