Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust has selected the Nervecentre electronic patient record as its preferred supplier, following a tender process.
The trust becomes the eleventh acute trust to select the EPR, with neighbouring trusts, Harrogate and District deploying the platform and York and Scarborough planning to go live early next year.
Commenting on the programme, Rob Birkett, chief digital information officer at Mid Yorkshire, said: “Selecting Nervecentre as our preferred supplier is a significant step in moving us forward on our journey to implementing a new EPR system at Mid Yorkshire.
“A new EPR will be transformative for the trust and will form the foundation of our digital strategy, on which we can really improve the care we provide our patients, in both our hospital and community services. This is a positive step forwards for all our teams across the entire trust, empowering colleagues via better use of digital and data.”
Nervecentre CEO Paul Volkaerts, added: “This is an exciting moment for the trust, and we’re proud to partner with them on such an important transformation programme. Choosing Nervecentre demonstrates that trusts have real choice in the market, and that modern technology can make a tangible difference to both staff experience and patient care.”
Wider trend: EPRs
The board of York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has shared an update on progress around EPR implementation, next steps, and future focuses for digital. Overall progress is reported as “in line with plan”, with go-live of the first tranche due to begin on 27 February 2026, including observations, clinical documentation for inpatients, urgent & emergency care, electronic prescribing and medicine administration, and read-only diagnostic results. The second tranche, which contains full order comms, is set to go live on 30 June, 2026, with the third to follow on 30 October.
For a recent HTN Now panel discussion on EPR best practices, we welcomed experts from across health and care, including Sally Mole, digital programme manager at The Dudley Group NHS FT, Fhezan Ashraf, clinical configuration manager at The Dudley Group NHS FT, Stacey Spence, EPR programme manager at Medway NHS FT and Hayley Grafton, CNIO at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. The discussion began with wider introductions, where each of our experts gave an overview of their own go-live projects before moving onto post go-live best practices, exploring key learnings and challenges when it comes to engaging the workforce and measuring adoption.
A recent HTN Now panel discussion explored EPR customisations for the frontline and how digital transformation can support the direction set in the 10 Year Health Plan. We discussed optimisation, challenges and key learnings from success stories shared by our experts. Panellists included Doctor Stephen Jones, principal clinical psychologist at Sheffield Children’s Hospital; David Wong, associate professor of health data science and health informatics at Leeds University; Mark Simpson, digital innovation leader at Leeds Community Healthcare; and Michael Odling-Smee, CEO at Aire Innovate.
