Scotland is on its way to becoming home to the UK’s largest connected laboratory medicine network, following the appointment of Citadel Health as the supplier for NHS Scotland’s Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) framework.
The new software will connect NHS laboratory medicine laboratories and hospitals across Scotland. The network has the potential to link and streamline complex clinical processes to improve the patient experience for the population of Scotland.
The 10-year partnership with Citadel Health has the prospect of dramatically enhancing diagnostic capability across NHS Scotland through collaboration, national standardisation and improved systems.
By managing more than 100 million specimen and test requests processed each year by NHS Scotland’s pathology laboratories, the system has the potential to improve equality in patient access, cutting duplication and freeing clinicians to manage resources within the network. Citadel Health’s Evolution vLab software already supports NHS trusts in England and Wales, and the new NHS Scotland partnership follows the recent successful tender to roll out the LIMS network across Wales.
The contract with Citadel Health reflects its proven ability to operate seamlessly across vast geographies, including the Southern Hemisphere’s largest single instance public health LIMS.