Internal Reference Number: FOI_9250
Date Request Received: 26/02/2026 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 24/03/2026 00:00:00
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Request Summary: outsourced teleradiology providers
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: I am researching the propensity for NHS trusts to outsource radiology reporting. Please provide, under the Freedom of Information act, the following information for hospitals in your trust: Please list each of your outsourced teleradiology providers | |
| Answer To Question 1: 1. Currently only TMC and Everlight. | |
| Question Number 2: Please provide the volume of radiology reporting OUTSOURCED to teleradiology providers and other providers annually from 2023-2025. The data should be broken down by provider the following categories: a) Overnight emergency b) Routine elective reporting (MRI, CT) c) Plain film reporting d) Day time emergency reporting e) Split into each hospital within the Trust | |
| Answer To Question 2: 2. Unfortunately we failed to differentiate between overnight emergency cases / day time emergency and routine reporting. Outsourced plain film reports 2023 : 13,516 Outsourced CT/MRI reports 2023 : 11,251 Outsourced plain film reports 2024 : 21,633 Outsourced CT/MRI reports 2024 : 19,210 Outsourced plain film reports 2025 : 17,677 Outsourced CT/MRI reports 2025 : 24,668 | |
| Question Number 3: Please provide TOTAL volume of scans reported (inhouse and outsourced) annually from 2023-2025, broken into the following: a) Overnight emergency b) Routine elective reporting (MRI, CT) c) Plain film reporting d) Day time emergency reporting e) Split into each hospital within the Trust | |
| Answer To Question 3: 3. Total plain film reports 2023 : 75,762 Total CT/MRI reports 2023 : 34,275 Total plain film reports 2024 : 87,702 Total CT/MRI reports 2024 : 41,710 Total plain film reports 2025 : 77,685 Total CT/MRI reports 2025 : 41,035 | |
| Question Number 4: Start date, duration, and end date of any contracts with teleradiology providers | |
| Answer To Question 4: 4. TMC - July 2021 - July 2026. Everlight - July 2021 - July 2026. Axon - Jan 2023 - Oct 2024. | |
| Question Number 5: Who in the Trust is responsible (Title and name if possible) for the management of the contract? | |
| Answer To Question 5: 5. Tom Beaumont (Head of Radiology) responsible for management of contracts within SA国际传媒. | |
| Question Number 6: What was the total annual spend on outsourced teleradiology (if relevant split by emergency and elective) from 2023-2025? | |
| Answer To Question 6: 2023 = 拢656,717 2024 = 拢861,625 2025 = 拢1,649,835 | |
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