Linköping – October 12, 2026 -- UK digital pathology provider Diagnexia has signed an annual, renewable agreement with Sectra (STO: SECT B) covering up to 100,000 cases in the first year, enabling it to receive, send and report pathology cases digitally for NHS organisations.
The contract was signed in the second quarter of Sectra's 2026/2027 fiscal year. It uses Sectra's service for advanced share and collaborate workflows to connect Diagnexia with NHS bodies that need external specialist support.
Diagnexia reporting capacity becomes available through existing Sectra connections
Hospitals already connected to the Sectra Image Exchange Portal (Sectra IEP) can reach Diagnexia's reporting capacity through the same connection and workflows. Jane Rendall, Managing Director for Sectra UK and Ireland, said this requires no new integration, no separate supplier onboarding and no additional infrastructure.
Sectra IEP is a cloud-based, vendor-neutral platform for exchanging and collaborating around medical images. More than 500 institutions use it, mainly in radiology. Following a substantial modernization, it now supports advanced workflows and specialties beyond radiology, and customers can manage workflows between organisations rather than only share images.
Diagnexia serves more than 30 NHS organizations with over 250 specialist pathologists
Diagnexia gives NHS services access to more than 250 GMC-registered specialist pathologists for routine, urgent and specialist cases, backlog clearance and multidisciplinary team (MDT) attendance. Its services integrate directly with Trusts' existing LIS and PACS.
The company runs a UKAS-accredited (ISO 15189:2022) histology laboratory in Oxford. It also operates digital accessioning facilities in Oxford and Exeter, both registered with the CQC.
Diagnexia CEO Donal O'Shea said Sectra's connecting work across more than 500 radiology institutions means the groundwork is already done for UK pathology, which has built digital capability one site at a time over a decade.
Digital job delegation replaces glass-slide transport between laboratories
NHS pathology services face growing case volumes with a limited number of reporting consultants. Increasing subspecialisation means the best-suited pathologist is often at another organisation. Outsourcing today typically relies on bespoke arrangements between individual laboratories, including transport of physical glass slides, which slows reporting and adds administrative overhead for sending and receiving sites.
Under the Sectra service, a laboratory can create a case as a job directly from its worklist and delegate it to a receiving organisation. The completed report returns to the referring organisation's own records. Sectra says the setup supports development of national telepathology networks in the UK.