Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a new electronic patient record utilising the Allscripts Sunrise platform.
The trust went live 5 months after signing a contract to procure the system and said they had planned to start deployment in the summer of 2020, but decided the solution was required sooner to support expected high winter demand.
Mark Hutchinson, Chief Digital and Information Officer “With a busy winter ahead, we were determined to do everything that we could to support better, safer decision making for our staff.”
“We ran a very successful pilot and then put all our energy and resources into supporting staff on 24 wards at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital to go-live with this system.”
“Throughout the training and testing period, the response from clinicians was overwhelmingly positive, so this has been an exciting time for the organisation. We have delivered a very successful initial rollout in a short timeframe thanks to the dedication and commitment of both GHFT and Allscripts staff. We are determined to push on and achieve our aim of using technology to support the kind of high-quality care that our patients deserve, and our staff aspire to deliver.”
The trust said they moved quickly because of access to a blueprint from previous implementations of the system.
Two early adopter wards went live with seven nursing documentation and risk assessments in November, just five months after signing the contract. A further 22 wards went live two weeks later, supported by a 24 hour EPR support team, providing hands on help to nursing staff on wards and coordinated by a dedicated command centre. All 24 adult inpatient wards at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital are now actively using Sunrise EPR.
The success of the first rollout in Gloucestershire Royal Hospital has led to the implementation in Cheltenham General Hospital being brought forward to February 2020.
Richard Strong, vice president and managing director, EMEA, Allscripts, said “When Gloucestershire Hospitals said it wanted to bring forward its first Sunrise go-live in order to address winter pressures we were very happy to help.”
“The fact that it has been able to go-live in such a short period of time is a tribute to the hard work of everybody involved at the trust and to the Allscripts UK deployment team. It is also a testament to the scalability of the clinical wrap strategy, when supported by our UK content blueprint.”
