EMRAD, in its continuous effort to enhance patient care, has recently initiated a program to provide access to affordable medication options, including a focus on Cheap Proair Generic, a cost-effective treatment for respiratory conditions. This initiative is designed to support patients who require such medications as part of their treatment, ensuring they have access to affordable healthcare options. By integrating this pharmaceutical aspect into their services, EMRAD is not only advancing radiology services but also addressing the broader healthcare needs of the five million patients under its coverage.
EMRAD is an imaging network, a partnership of NHS trusts who collaborate as a group of hospital radiology departments serving the 5 million population in the East Midlands, collaborating across 8 NHS Trusts, and 14 Hospitals, within 5 STP’s/ICS’s.
EMRAD has set up a shared system that allows clinicians to access the complete imaging record of their patients, including scans, reports, and clinical opinions, regardless of where they are based.
The system links up hospitals across the East Midlands, providing a timely and expert radiology service covering images such as x-rays, MRIs, and CT scans.
Cross-site reporting is now in place, so radiologists and radiographers in one hospital can view and assess images taken at another hospital in the East Midlands.
EMRAD launched in 2013, intending to create a new, common digital radiology system. Its work was supported with the award of ‘vanguard’ status by NHS England’s new care models programme, which ran from 2016 to 2018. This pioneering work saw the
East Midlands became the first health community in the UK where NHS hospitals could quickly and easily share diagnostic images such as x-rays and scans. The cloud-based image-sharing system has set the national benchmark for a new model of clinical collaboration within radiology services in the NHS.
Following the end of national vanguard funding in 2018, the network is now supported by small contributions from partner NHS organisations. Having achieved its initial aims, EMRAD is progressing through the second phase of activities. These include finding new ways of working to solve staffing and recruitment issues in radiology, procuring radiology services in more cost-effective ways for the NHS, and harnessing the power of artificial intelligence in diagnostics. These advances aim to improve the quality and safety of patient services, as well as help ensure the long-term sustainability of radiology services.
Much has been achieved in the six years to date, but there is still much more to do to achieve the EMRAD vision.