The National Pathology Imaging Cooperative (NPIC) is delivering a nationally coordinated digital pathology infrastructure to support both clinical service transformation and data-driven research across the NHS. This talk will describe NPIC’s end-to-end digital pathology ecosystem, from large-scale slide digitisation and image management to secure data access, analysis, and governance at national scale.

The presentation will outline how NPIC’s infrastructure supports high-throughput clinical workflows while simultaneously enabling advanced research use cases, including artificial intelligence development, validation, and translational deployment. The talk will also highlight the NPIC AI FORGE, a unique multi-scanner digital pathology testbed designed to support robust, reproducible evaluation of AI tools across heterogeneous imaging platforms and real-world NHS data.

The talk will also highlight how NPIC integrates with broader national initiatives, including secure data environments to enable responsible data access while maintaining patient confidentiality and public trust.

Through practical examples, this session will demonstrate how NPIC is enabling translational research at scale.