Northampton General Hospital (NGH) has signed a 10-year contract with Nervecentre for the deployment of its cloud-based EPR, with frontline digitisation funding allocated by NHS England.
Other trusts in the vicinity are working with Nervecentre include Nottingham University Hospitals, Chesterfield Royal Hospital and University Hospitals of Derby and Burton, with NGH noting that use of the same EPR platform will “encourage borderless collaboration among participating hospitals, enabling secure data exchange whilst respecting localised record-sharing preferences”.
NGH shares expectations that the EPR deployment will “transform the quality of care” with improved access to real-time information, reduced use of paper, reduced levels of variation, and more.
HTN previously reported on the trust’s announcement of its preferred EPR supplier here.
EPRs in the spotlight
Last week we reported that the full business case has been approved and funding secured for a shared EPR for Norfolk and Waveney Acute Hospitals Collaborative, spanning Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, James Paget University Hospitals, and The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust.
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire’s EPR went live in June, with chief executive Professor Andy Hardy commenting on expectations that the EPR will “streamline the hundreds of different systems across all departments and services into one”.
May saw the news that Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust are to implement a shared EPR.
Also from Northamptonshire
Earlier in the year we covered how Northamptonshire Healthcare offers a headset and behaviour training app as a treatment option for patients with depression, with the ‘Flow’ headset delivering transcranial direct current stimulation treatment and patients using the app to control the headset and monitor progress.
We explored Northamptonshire ICB’s five-year joint forward plan here.
And to take a wider view, here’s the Midlands feature of our editorial series exploring the digital and data landscape across each of the ICS regions.
