Job overview
The Imaging Network Board is a collaborative partnership across the three ICSs of Surrey, Sussex & Frimley, ensuring alignment in service delivery across all health and care organisations in the region:
- East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (ESHT)
- University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (UHSx)
- Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (QVH)
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT)
- Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (ASPH)
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust (RSFT)
- Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH)
- Surrey Heartlands ICB
- Sussex Healthcare ICB
- Frimley Health and Care ICB
Main duties of the job
To deliver high quality, timely, sustainable, equitable diagnostic imaging services to patients working collaboratively as partners through Surrey, Sussex & Frimley Imaging Network (SE2). Trusts will commit to collaborating to achieve the below expectations and deliverables of the Imaging Network:
- Facilitate sharing of images between providers – to avoid duplication of imaging when patients move between hospitals in the network.
- Ensure reporting is undertaken wherever there is capacity and expertise in the network.
- Ensure consistent, quality care through the sharing of best practice, and reduction of variation.
- Mutually collaborate in an equitable and fair manner to support sharing of imaging resources through standardised imaging protocols across the network.
- Improve staff movement between Trusts for training and development; equity of access; improved quality.
- Collaborate to achieve cost effectiveness in capital planning including equipment, consumables, and services (i.e. outsourcing/insourcing options).
- Drive innovation and transformation for optimal clinical outcomes and best use of resources.
- Support standardised imaging protocols to support Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT); reduction in duplication of imaging when patients move between providers; ease staff movement; equity of access; improved quality.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description attached.
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