University Hospitals Birmingham NHS FT has launched a pre-market engagement notice looking to identify suppliers and current market capabilities for an eConsent system.
Feedback from suppliers on the engagement will help inform the future development of a specification and procurement strategy, University Hospitals Birmingham shares.
The trust hopes to replace paper-based forms currently in use by clinicians to collect patient consent prior to an examination or treatment, which requires uploading to the EPR. The solution should offer the ability to digitise this process, in a way that ensures security, legal compliance, and user-friendliness for staff and patients.
Contract dates are estimated to run from May 2026 to April 2029, with a possible extension to April 2030.
Interested suppliers are invited to respond to the trust’s requirements via an expression of interest by 13:00 on 27 January 2026. To learn more about the engagement, please click here.
Last month, UHB awarded a contract worth £593,460 to Histofy for a digital histology annotation solution for the West Midlands Secure Data Environment (WMSDE). The solution is to be deployed within the WMSDE, a data storage and access platform, to support the development of AI technologies. This includes responsibility for processing de-identified digital pathology image data and its associated metadata for annotation purposes.
Wider trend: Digital transformation in Birmingham
UHB issued a tender notice for an integrated digital patient pathway platform worth up to £2 million in September last year. The platform is sought to help to deliver evidence-based care consistently across specialties, improve efficiency, reduce the risk of error or unwarranted variation, and ensure patients receive care in the “most appropriate setting”, first time. It is also expected to facilitate patient choice and engagement, improve care quality, reduce health inequalities, and “give patients visibility and involvement throughout their journey”.
UHB also entered a contract worth over £300k with Kinseed Limited for an end-to-end patient care management solution for intensive care units. The contract, set to run to March 2028, has a total value of £309, 680.20. Marked as an “IT software package”, the solution is a digital EPR application said to enable healthcare professionals to “capture, manage and monitor patient administrative and clinical status during referral and retrieval process for intensive care units”.
A roadmap for delivery of Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust’s latest strategy to 2030 has outlined a series of digital priorities across the next four years, covering post-go-live EPR optimisation, piloting AI, cloud migration, and a device and infrastructure refresh. For 2026-27, aims include publishing a new digital strategy, post-go-live optimisation of Epic EPR, completing a legacy system risk assessment and prioritised replacement plan, piloting AI solutions, redesigning data governance, and developing a pathology and genetics LIMS.
