Merge in the UK & Ireland
Supporting radiology and imaging teams across the NHS, HSE and private sector
Intelligent, scalable imaging workflow tools with deep expertise to help hospitals, ICBs, trusts, local health boards and imaging networks protect against downtime, enhance workflows, optimise care delivery and improve patient outcomes.
Why Merge?
Transform with confidence, with Merge
Own your data with a vendor neutral archive
Merge VNA makes your patient data your own -- giving you the PACS freedom you need to stay portable and switch to the best RIS and PACS for your needs.
Modular solutions that grow with you, at your pace
Eliminate separate data silos for each department, onboard all of your 'ologies into a single central vendor neutral archive, and scale up and release cost savings.
DICOM heritage: 30 years of integration expertise
As one of the original co-founders of the DICOM standard, Merge's skilled, certified consultants and support staff draw on decades of DICOM-driven interoperability expertise to provide quick answers to your questions and solutions to your challenges.
Your Merge advisors
Seamus Flood
Account Executive
With 25 years’ experience in healthcare, including 12 years at Philips, Seamus specialises in patient monitoring, pain management, telehealth, and more. Based near Chichester, he focuses on innovative, technology-driven solutions to improve outcomes, efficiency, and patient care, while addressing real-world NHS challenges and driving long-term system transformation.
Jeremy Solly
Technical Consultant
Based in Southampton, Jeremy is a Technical Consultant specialising in medical imaging solutions. With a background in IT security and resilience, he brings relevant expertise to today’s healthcare landscape. Known for strategic insight and technical fluency, Jeremy bridges clinical needs with innovative imaging systems to improve patient outcomes.
Jamie Smolinski
Sales Leader
With over 25 years in Medical Imaging, both modality and healthcare IT, Jamie leads the Global Partnership team, focusing on the GTM Merge international expansion in key defined markets, with particular focus on the UK. Working closely with the local UK team, Jamie understands the pain points of the ever-changing NHS and direct customer base, focusing on how Merge can make an immediate impact.
Ibrar Ahmed
Technical Support Analyst
Based in Nottingham with 10+ years of IT support experience across medical, manufacturing, energy, and finance, Ibrar specialises in radiology IT, PACS, and ARCHIVE systems. He works with NHS Trusts and international hospitals, enhancing workflows and delivering efficient, high-quality healthcare IT solutions.
Helmut Zarka
International Client Success Director
As Director of International Client Success, based in Dublin, Helmut leads a team responsible for managing key international client relationships, ensuring high-quality technical support, and driving customer satisfaction for Merge's global operations. He also draws on his IBM programme management experience in helping clients improve their own effectiveness for better patient experience.
Colin Povall
Senior Inside Sales Manager
With over 30 years’ experience of working with and for the NHS, Colin has a keen insight into the day-to-day pressures NHS professionals face. Since starting his career as an Operating Department Practitioner at Nottingham University Hospital, Colin's expertise has been in radiology, cardiology, pathology, and vendor neutral archiving. Based out of the Wirral in the Northwest, Colin takes a strong customer-centric philosophy in helping our NHS partners achieve their short and long term goals.
Merge Workflow Orchestrator
Reimagine your imaging workspace
Personalise the physician reading experience
A single modern interface that integrates insights from advanced diagnostic tools and AI.
AI-powered caseload distribution engine
Intuitively “learns” how to distribute cases equitably across reading teams for the best reading experience.
One worklist to rule them all
Mitigate click fatigue and physician burnout.
Merge VNA (Vendor Neutral Archive)
More than just a VNA
Helps users store, manage and share images
Consolidate and centralise data from disparate storage systems, specialities, service lines and sites – regardless of source or format.
Reduce downtime and improve efficiency to alleviate stress in the system caused by clinician shortages.
Merge Universal Viewer
Anytime, anywhere access to diagnostic images
A regulatory-cleared, zero-download web-based diagnostic viewer
Allowing healthcare providers and care teams across the enterprise – and patients themselves – to access images from any healthcare application, anywhere.
Come meet us in person!
Our team will be attending conferences and NHS meetings over the coming months. If you’re planning to be at any of the following events, stop by and say hello.
- NHS 13th Radiology & Imaging conference.
Birmingham, 5 November - NHS England National Imaging Network conference.
London, 11 November - Digital Pathology & AI Congress Europe.
London, 10-11 December
