Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust has shared the latest on its EPR progress following a launch event in June, covering recruitment, finances, and a roadmap to go-live. An initial tranche incorporating ED, inpatient, and order comms, is due to go live in July 2027. A second tranche including PAS and outpatients is then expected to follow later in the same year.
The launch session was “well attended with good representation” from across the organisation, including nursing, AHPs, midwifery, medics, operational, and corporate, the trust highlights. Engagement was reportedly high, and focused module sessions took place throughout the day.
The implementation comprises more than 120 workshop sessions looking at how implementation could improve quality, safety, and efficiency, according to the trust. These are now almost complete, and engagement has been good, with some cohorts “leading the way” and others requiring more support and encouragement.
From a financial perspective, Mid Yorks reports being in a good position, with all expenditure being closely monitored, but some unknowns remaining about the costs relating to data extraction from Leeds Teaching Hospitals as the current supplier of the PPM system, that are hoped to be clarified over the coming weeks.
80 percent of the programme team is now in place, with team size expected to fluctuate dependent on programme progress. The CNIO role will be key, the trust notes, with interviews progressing and ambitions to have the role established by 1 September 2026. Support from third-party suppliers will be needed in specialist areas such as data migration during the implementation phase, it continues, and early engagement around this is “well underway”.
Overall, the programme is progressing well, although it “remains ambitious”, the trust concludes, offering commendations to the EPR team and colleagues involved so far.
Wider trend: EPR
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS FT has updated on EPR readiness ahead of a planned EPR go-live date of October 2027, highlighting that a “significant proportion of readiness activity remains either not started or at an early stage”, with key dependencies still unresolved. Progress has been observed around core governance structures, leadership frameworks, enabling infrastructure, training, device audits, and initial transformation arrangements, according to the board. Work is ongoing to develop role-based training, define system profiles, and establish cross-organisational groups to support policies, procedures, and super users.
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has published its quality account for 2025/26, outlining successes over the last 12 months including its EPR programme. “Significant progress” has been made over 2025/26 in delivering the trust’s digital programme in support of safer, more efficient, and more integrated care, University Hospitals Plymouth states, with the formal award of an EPR contract to Epic as part of the One Devon EPR programme. The implementation phase remains ongoing, it continues, with a planned go-live scheduled for July 2026 following a successful go-live at Torbay Hospital in April.
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has delayed the planned June go-live 
of its eCare EPR, describing the decision as a “necessary and appropriate assurance action”. The decision was taken following a 60-day review of clinical, operational, and technical readiness, the board shares, highlighting that despite substantial progress, it had not been sufficiently assured that a June go-live would consistently support safe patient care and service continuity across all areas. Additional time will now be taken to complete further clinical and operational assurance, the trust states, as well as to strengthen end-to-end pathways, improve safety controls, increase staff readiness and confidence, and “reduce systemwide risk at go-live and during early stabilisation”.
