What is the advantage of this over procuring a national PACS for England, as has been done in Scotland and Wales?

NIR Scope & Vision FAQs
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  • NIR supports a competitive imaging market, as opposed to creating a monopoly - allowing systems to choose the best technical solution for their local patients/clinical need, and indeed to change between systems.

  • The NIR also allows clinicians to access healthcare images within the independent sector, and for independent sector providers of NHS care to access relevant medical imaging.

  • The NIR has the ambition to move beyond radiology images, to other modalities not traditionally stored in a PACS environment.