Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is celebrating the launch of its Nervecentre EPR, building on “slower than expected” performance from an initial go-live in November.
“When the Nervecentre systems went live on Monday 3 November, we experienced a slower than expected performance,” the trust shares. “However, we worked closely with our partners at Nervecentre to resolve the performance issues in order to rapidly restore stability to the EPR system across NUH.”
According to NUH, the system will promote access to patient data across different departments and help improve patient care coordination, reducing time spent on administrative work, and improving care quality and cost effectiveness.
This is the beginning of a ten-year journey, the trust continues, “to ensure we make the most of this investment with more improvements and developments still to come”. For 2026, that will include functionality such as the Patient Centre module, designed to grant patients the opportunity to use digital tools to get more involved in their own care.
Mark Simmonds, deputy medical director and clinical lead for the EPR programme, said: “Despite our initial challenges, teams across NUH are getting stuck in and learning a new way of working. There is a lot more work to do but this is an exciting start to our digital transformation with the delivery of quality patient care at its heart.”
The trust also shared the news on LinkedIn:
Wider trend: EPR optimisation
HTN’s EPR feature series takes a deep dive and reflects on some of the progress made around EPRs over the last 12 months, focusing-in on implementations, on optimisation and benefits realisation, on future plans, and on insights from the wider health and care sector.
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has highlighted digital progress and outlined future priorities, focusing on EPR optimisation, establishing a shared digital workspace, embracing AI, and enabling a digital front door. Progress continues to be made on its EPR optimisation programme, the trust shares, with some of the latest developments including improvements to handover documentation, the launch of CDS iRefer in community and acute settings, and the broader rollout of Alertive. Smart Zone functionality has been introduced to reduce alert fatigue by prioritising the most important alerts. An electronic prescribing system is also now live in its virtual hospital and outpatients.
The board of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust in its latest meeting discussed some of the initial outcomes, challenges, benefits, and opportunities from its newly launched EPR. The EPR went live in November 2025 alongside EPMA, at a cost of £50 million. The trust’s radiology information system, picture archiving and communications system, and laboratory information management systems were upgraded simultaneously. A raft of other feedback is also offered by the board, which states that benefits from the system have been easier to deliver on wards, where time has been freed up for clinical staff to spend with patients; and harder to realise in theatres and outpatient clinics.
