Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust goes live with Sectra

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has connected radiologists across large parts of south-east England, following the go-live of Sectra’s enterprise imaging solution.

The trust is the sixth NHS organisation in the South East 2 Imaging Network to deploy Sectra’s enterprise imaging solution. The commonality of the technology now in place opens opportunities for clinical collaboration across multiple locations and brings with it the means to further enhance care and safety for patients.

Trusts involved now share a single interface for radiology imaging. This means that imaging is immediately available to professionals across the six participating trusts. It also lays the foundations for workforce development at a regional level, with new possibilities for harnessing scarce resources where they are needed most.

Consultant radiologist and chief of cancer and diagnostics Dr Tony Newman-Sanders said: “We are placing modern technology into the hands of our healthcare professionals and creating the foundations on which we can build imaging services that meet the needs of our patients into the future. This has the potential to deliver rapid impact for safer care, and to maximise the use of our specialist diagnostic expertise.”

Several trusts in the region have also deployed the digital pathology module of Sectra’s enterprise imaging solution. Although this module was not part of the agreement at Surrey and Sussex, trust imaging specialists will be able to benefit from visibility of pathology cases from elsewhere in the region to complement their reporting.

Sectra UK and Ireland managing director Jane Rendall commented: “Hard work has gone into making sure that this deployment is successful. The potential for enhanced patient care that comes with it is highly significant at a time when diagnostics is so high on the national agenda. It has been gratifying to collaborate with teams at the trust, and across the region, in delivering against their objectives, and I look forward to ongoing collaboration as the future of diagnostics continues to evolve.”

Read this report on page 21 of the June 2025 issue of RAD Magazine.