University Hospitals of Derby and Burton and Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts have introduced Nervecentre’s cloud–native EPR platform.
Launched across six hospitals in February, as part of a phased roll-out, this phase focused on deploying mobile capabilities to the hospitals’ emergency departments and inpatient wards.
The trusts report that in its first week, the system was used to create more than 435,000 patient notes, to take more than 100,000 observations, and to raise in excess of 137,000 tasks. Almost 90,000 sepsis screening notes were also added in the first 48 hours, potentially supporting early detection.
Debbie Loke, executive CDIO at UHDB, commented on the teamwork element of the go-live, stating: “Going live with a clinical system like Nervecentre across six hospital sites for more than 7,000 colleagues is a significant step in our digital transformation journey. Colleagues across UHDB and Chesterfield Royal Hospital have worked together to bring these improvements to our colleagues, supporting safer and higher quality care for our patients and the communities we serve.”
UHDB’s CNIO, Stacey Hatton, added: “By having access to Nervecentre at their fingertips and at the patient’s bedside, clinicians have more accurate, real-time data and we are already seeing that colleagues are able to spend more time directly with patients providing quality care.”
EPRs from across the NHS
HTN was joined by a panel of experts to discuss the importance of baselining current position to inform EPR implementation, avoiding common pitfalls, and ensuring workforce buy-in. Panellists talked about the importance of understanding current position as part of building the “case for change”, and the potential for organisational readiness assessments to help identify challenges in approaching EPR implementation.
For another HTN Now webinar, we welcomed a panel for a discussion around digital trusts, focusing on what good looks like from a tech perspective, the best ways of fostering a culture of innovation, building great digital teams, and more. Making up our panel were Georgie Duncan, associate CCIO at Leeds Teaching Hospitals; Neill Crump, digital strategy director at The Dudley Group; and Andrew Harrison, international principle product manager at Imprivata.
In November a HTN Now panel discussion focused on the topic of managing EHR complexity, we were joined by Paul Charnley, former CIO and chair of the NHS Blueprinting Programme, and Mike Hardman, principal engineer and EPR technology lead at Aire Logic, who shared some of their insight and experience on overcoming challenges around EHR design and implementation.
In news, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust’s board meeting on 6 February highlighted plans around the procurement of an EPR to replace the trust’s current system, and ongoing work around data quality.
