Norfolk and Waveney Acute Hospital Collaborative has awarded a contract to healthcare and consulting service provider, Arca Resourcing, to provide an IT audit and create an asset register for all devices within the trust.
This comes before the implementation of its integrated electronic patient record, which is to be used across Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS FT, James Paget University Hospitals NHS FT and The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn FT and is said to be “one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation” the ICB has undertaken.
In July 2024, Norfolk and Waveney Acute Hospitals Collaborative received full business case approval for the EPR programme, backed by £88 million in funding provided by NHS England and Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board, with the planned launch to be in 2026.
The IT audit and asset register contract has been valued at £80k and will reportedly last for seven weeks, with completion expected by 31 March 2025. It follows another recent contract awarded by Norfolk and Waveney ICB, for a social prescribing digital platform, in which tech supplier Pungo received a two-year contract worth £250k.
Recent investments in digital healthcare
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust recently awarded a new contract to the MyRenalCare app, a digital solution designed to support patients with kidney disease. The £250k contract was procured to offer patients a way to “take control of their condition” while also allowing clinicians to provide guidance via virtual consultations.
A contract valued at £386,600 was awarded by NHS North Central London ICB to Kooth Digital Health for the procurement of an online counselling and support service for children and young people. The service aims to provide people aged 11-18 years and vulnerable people up to 25 years with a “secure means of accessing support”, while also offering local promotion to schools and other community settings.
NHS England awarded a three-year contract valued at £37.5m to technology consultancy company, BJSS Limited for the further development of the NHS.uk portfolio. This includes working on the NHS App and Login. They also awarded a second contract to IBM to continue their work on developing the NHS App, extending their previous agreement and bringing the total value up to £65.5m, as they move closer to the June 2026 end date.
NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB awarded a 3-year contract to digital solutions platform, IEG4 Limited, for a digitalised end-to-end patient management system, valued at £497,600.
