Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a 10-year contract extension for an electronic patient record system from The Phoenix Partnership (TPP), set to run for 10 years and worth an estimated £6,294,780.
The contract is described as a “collaboration” between Sussex Community alongside East Sussex Healthcare, Surrey and Borders Partnership, and Sussex Partnership.
The closing date for the procurement opportunity was April this year, which followed The Guardian’s report of controversial remarks made by TPP founder and CEO Frank Hester in March.
TPP will be supplying the EPR for Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust until July 2034.
Electronic patient records: the wider trend
In other recent EPR procurement news, we highlighted how Northampton General Hospital signed a 10-year contract with Nervecentre for the deployment of its cloud-based EPR.
Norfolk and Waveney Acute Hospitals Collaborative shared an update on plans to implement a shared EPR across Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, James Paget University Hospitals, and The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, with the full business case now approved and MEDITECH selected to supply the system.
In June, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust went live with its new Oracle EPR.
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 new shared electronic patient record, also with Oracle.
In April, meanwhile, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust awarded a contract to Dakota Integrated Solutions to provide support with the trust’s Epic EPR implementation.
Also in April, Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust awarded an EPR contract to Insight Direct, subcontracting services to Altera Digital Health.
And in March, North London Mental Health Partnership announced its intention to move to a single electronic patient record system for the partnership, with the RIO EPR selected.
