Feedback PLC (LON:FDBK) (AIM:FDBK), the clinical infrastructure company, said it was awarded a 12-month contract to provide its Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) solution to allow for an extension of a pilot in Sussex alongside Queen Victoria Hospital (QVH).
The extension of the pilot phase of the Sussex Health and Care Partnership Integrated Care System (Sussex ICS) development programme will test the current CDC solution, which is used to create faster access to diagnostic testing to reduce waiting times.
In a statement, Feedback said the discounted contract is valued at £450,000 and covers the period from 31 March 2022, when the previous agreement ended, until 31 March 2023.
Additionally, by the end of the contract, the company expects QVH to have “concluded a formal procurement for the next phase of the CDC programme”, where Feedback intends to bid.
Feedback said the contract comes as the first live patients go through the CDC pilot, which was set up to establish symptom-based pathway models for CDC services using Feedback's digital infrastructure solutions Bleepa and CareLocker. The deployment of Feedback's product suite in the Sussex ICS is intended to be used as a blueprint model for future CDC digital infrastructure models across the UK, it noted.
"QVH and the broader Sussex team have been great partners in delivering this end-to-end clinical solution,” said chief executive of Feedback Dr Tom Oakley.
“This contract recognises the initial stage of our work together and enables us to proceed to a more formal working arrangement, pending a successful procurement exercise.”