The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded a contract worth £8 million to The Phoenix Partnership (Leeds) Ltd for an EHR and medicines management system, following a competition through the Clinical Digital Solutions for the Integrated Health Economy Framework part of the NHS London Procurement Partnership.
The contract, which is set to run to 8 December 2033, covers standard primary care functionality such as patient registration, consultations, clinical data capture templates, referrals management, long-term condition management, and prescribing. It also incorporates intermediate care functionality such as waiting list management and care planning, as well as medicines management and dispensing.
Milestones and deliverables are set out in the contract delivery, with initiation on 27 February 2026, system training and knowledge transfer by 27 March 2026, system configuration by 19 June 2026, and readiness for testing established by 31 July 2026. Pilot site go-live is expected in March 2027, before phase one operational go-live in June 2027, and functionality go-live and optimisation in March 2028.
Key deliverables include completion of a learning needs analysis, technical integration, the provision of test environments, an agreed data migration plan, live production environments established for all services, technical support for go-live, and NHS integrations.
A joint project governance structure will be set up to manage delivery of the implementation plan, according to the contract, to include a project working group that will maintain regular oversight and monitoring of progress, risks, issues, and dependencies.
Wider trend: EPR
A 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.
NHS Humber Health Partnership, covering Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, has announced its selection of the ORBIS U EPR solution by Dedalus. Sharing on LinkedIn, the trust celebrated the “significant milestone” the EPR represents in helping both trusts improve the experience of staff and patients across the Northern and North-East Lincolnshire, Hull and East Yorkshire regions.
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.
