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Hospital Services Limited (HSL) invited to join NHS Medical IT Framework

We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded a position by NHS Supply Chain to join the recently-launched NHS Medical IT Framework.

Announced in February by NHS Supply Chain, the framework is helping hospital trusts across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to adopt innovative new digital, departmental IT solutions such as radiology, pathology, cardiology, endoscopy, mammography, electronic patient records, and sharing solutions within an NHS hospital, NHS community and/or social care environment. Also included is the provision of Medical IT hardware which includes servers, monitors, workstations, artificial intelligence (AI) and business analytics, along with the use of data management and cloud-based software and various department-specific solutions, among others.

The updated Medical IT Departmental Software and Hardware Solutions framework runs for two years, with the option to extend for an additional two years, and gives trusts access to an expanded choice of the latest technology from more than 70 suppliers, with increased product availability and a wide range of services and flexible IT software products designed to modernise NHS systems and increase efficiency.

“Being invited to join the recently launched NHS framework is an exciting development for HSL’s East Midlands and Belfast-based teams,” said Dominic Walsh, Chief Executive, HSL. “We look forward to the additional opportunities being included on the framework will open up to our team as we continue to provide bespoke, secure, user-friendly technological solutions to diverse teams practicing across the UK’s health services to help maintain and improve the experience of the medical practitioner and the patient alike.”

Phil Scott, NHS Supply Chain’s Trading Manager – Maintenance and Services added, “Medical IT systems are essential to the NHS digital transformation as every hospital requires a way to store, manage and share vital patient data across each site, region and even nation. Our updated and improved Medical IT Framework aligns to the national NHS Digital strategy. It enables us to provide individually tailored support to acute trusts in procuring a range of cross department digital solutions and supporting hardware from a range of leading technology suppliers, in a rapidly evolving landscape. Our framework solutions are cutting edge and centralise data within trusts, making internal processes more efficient – saving time and duplication of efforts.”

Long-time innovators in the healthcare sector across the UK and Ireland, HSL – one of the largest privately-owned distributors to the health sector – has a rich heritage of supplying market leading, cutting-edge technologies and solutions to its customers as well as providing on-going technical and clinical support to the end-user. HSL partners with many world class manufacturers focussed on Medical IT and innovation including Barco, Eizo, LG and Ergotron.

HSL’s long-standing expertise in secure and innovative Telehealth solutions has also positioned the company uniquely during the Coronavirus pandemic to develop and roll-out telehealth solutions which have enabled continued consultation and collaboration amongst the medical community at a time of restricted access. Further reinforcing our professionalism and expertise in Telehealth, we recently-announced a partnership with Zoom, the leading global cloud services provider for video communications and collaboration, which will enable HSL customers to deliver integrated virtual care services for clinicians and patients, as well as being a tool for administration, medical education and existing hospital-based collaboration activities.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Stephanie Ingley .