MEDICA Nighthawk

Out of hours emergency CT reporting
now down to 30 minutes

Cut costs but not quality with our SAFE and COST-EFFECTIVE out-of-hours emergency CT reporting. All scans reported by UK-trained, UK-based and UK-practising FRCR consultants within one hour.

Save up to 50% on typical locum cover costs*, 365 nights a year. Medica Nighthawk covers all stroke and trauma imaging for your busy hospital with a one hour turnaround of a verbal AND electronic RIS report back to your in-house clinicians.

Now, MEDICA Nighthawk tackles the COST pressures as well as the WORK pressures for those hospitals that find on-call service delivery unsustainable. You need your colleagues awake and alert, competently looking after your patients, talking with your clinicians, offering optimum service under the most difficult circumstances during the day – MEDICA Nighthawk gives you them the freedom to do that.

 

Here are some of the reasons why NHS Trusts choose MEDICA's out-of-hours teleradiology service:

Increased emergencies

Nighthawk can help you to ease the strain of increasing volumes of emergency requests

Meet guidelines

NHS Trusts use Nighthawk to help them confirm with NICE head and neck injury guidlines and meet National Stroke targets

Need on-call cover

Our FRCR Consultant Radiologists can step in to ease EWTD pressures and provide the highest level of clinical opinion through the night

Holiday and sickness

You employ people – not machines. They take holidays, they have children, they look after families and sometimes they fall sick

“ Highly professional set-up, first class service which we use and pay for as and when we need to ... I recommend the use of Nighthawk to any hospital struggling to provide 24x7x365 access to diagnostics. ”
Radiology Services Manager
Hywell-Dda NHS Trust

MEDICA Nighthawk offers you...

  • Cost-effective service and flexible hours of use
    If you need us just for the weekends, bank holidays or just for certain days in a year, we are able to effortlessly respond and provide our highly valued service to you at a moments notice
  • Guaranteed reporting within 30 minutes
    We provide both a verbal and fully authorised and transcribed written report into your RIS using the services of our experienced, UK qualified, resident and practising consultant radiologists
  • Secure, legitimate, rapid and easy set up of the service
    You can be up and running in days not weeks
  • Streamlined referall process
    Using our deep experience, we are able to streamline the referral process and firmly establish clear, tailored clinical out of hours protocols if you do not currently use or have them
  • A full consultation facility
    Available to the radiographer and the referring clinician if the examination requested is not covered by protocol
  • Telephoned guidance to the referrer
    We will call to discuss the findings and help define the optimum next step in patient care
  • Access to 24*7 MEDICA support engineers
    There to help ensure service continuity when you are not there, no matter what

So, no worries about affording, handling or planning on-call ever again...let MEDICA take the strain, we’re here to help.

For further information on our remote Reporting Service, please telephone
0845 0569 750 and ask for the Business Development Team, or email us: info@medicagroup.co.uk

* Dr Jenny Maniyar, when she was resident radiologist at Stepping Hill Hospital in Manchester, reported at UKRC in 2009 that an audit of Medica outsourced reports over five months revealed that there had been no significant discrepancies. Dr Maniyar had calculated that had in-house consultant radiologists done this overnight reporting, the hospital would have had to fund locum cover for elective radiology services the next day at a cost of over £17,000. Teleradiology reporting costs for the same period, however, were less than £8,000.