SameDay
Prioritised reporting for urgent scans
Removing your pressure during peak times of the day, every day.
7 days a week
Live visibility of patient's journey
Relieving in-patient pressures
What you can expect from Medica
Fast turnaround times
4 hours turnaround for exams.
Quality assurance
Detailed quality assurance process to monitor the standard of radiology reporting.
Optimised referral to report solution
We can work flexibly around your sending needs for reports to be completed as quickly and efficiently as possible.
SameDay Portal
Our portal provides live visibility and accountability of all your SameDay patients.
Relieve department pressures
Our SameDay service is designed for exams where a report is required in a shorter timescale than standard elective reporting.
It is ideally suited to inpatient work and particularly to support end of day backlog and bed clearance.
Support to meet your financial targets
Reduces costs by taking cases that would otherwise be reported through our emergency 1 hour pathway.
A service tailored to you
We cover a broad range of cross sectional and plain film reporting, optimised to meet your needs.
SameDay case study
East Sussex Healthcare Trust provides a comprehensive range of services to patients, including over 280,000 scans/x-rays and over 130,000 emergency department visits each year.
The Trust saw a sustained rise in inpatients requiring rapid access CT and MRI scans to support their care. Radiology was able to increase scanning capacity but did not have the number of radiologists in the relevant specialty areas to accommodate the increased daily urgent reporting requirements.
The Trust expanded their existing SLA with Medica to include SameDay reporting, one of Medica’s acute reporting services, at weekends. The SameDay service provides access to reports within 4 hours for more routine scans such as staging, dementia brain scans, HRCTs and ward patients.
The service provides the radiology team and referring clinicians with actionable reports in a timely manner, without impact to the Trust’s elective and acute services, which run in parallel. This enables the Trust to discharge patients and free up beds, which are in short supply, for sicker patients in greater need and to start each week without a backlog of ward patients.
"The beauty of SameDay is that it covers unexpected demand and can maximise CT scanning capacity despite local changes or limitations to radiology staffing.
The SameDay service has enabled us to maximise scanning capacity, despite the challenges presented by numerous and unpredictable staff absences throughout the pandemic. This means that the In-patient scanners are never sitting idle while there are radiographers available to run them."
Lead Radiographer CT/IR
NHS Scotland Client site
SameDay has been in use for just over 18 months at this NHS Scotland client site.