One Dorset Pathology, a collaboration between Dorset County Hospital, Poole Hospital and the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals is set to adopt a single laboratory information system from CliniSys.
The group will utilise the WinPath Enterprise platform to support the development of a pathology hub and spoke service, to improve the availability of tests results.
The system will replace the current pathology systems used by each trust for over 20 years.
Stephen Harding, head of service at One Dorset Pathology, said “The new CliniSys LIMS is a significant enabler of the transformations we are looking to achieve. It would be difficult to run a consolidated testing service without a single LIMS, because our hub and spokes need to use the same processes and communicate effectively with each other.”
“By having a single system, we will also be able to open-up results across the network, so that patients who have tests in one hospital will have the results available if they go to another hospital. That will be a significant benefit and will significantly improve patient care and safety across the county.”
“This is a major change, so we will be working hard to engage our clinicians and train them in the system and new ways of working. An important immediate benefit will be that we will have far better data on what is happening across our labs. At the moment, we have to run queries overnight, whereas CliniSys comes with visualisation tools and dashboards built in.”
“We are also planning to replace all of our analytical equipment, and CliniSys will support the transition to our chosen analytic platforms as well.”
One Dorset Pathology, one of the 29 pathology networks announced by NHS England and Improvement, concluded the tender in summer last year, and the LIMS is likely to be deployed as a single activation rather than a site by site go-live over the next 18 months.
