An invitation to tender has been published by the Falkland Islands Government Office, looking for potential suppliers for a territory-wide electronic patient record system.
The contract has not yet been assigned an estimated value, but is set to run from 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2031, for a period of five years.
According to the notice, the solution will be used by multi-disciplinary clinical teams situated within the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and community settings.
Potential suppliers have until 16 June 2026 to register their interest, with full guidance on applying and using the Proactis Pro-Contract e-procurement platform available here.
Wider trend: EPR
Judy Faulkner, Epic founder and CEO, has shared insights into Epic’s almost 50-year journey in the electronic health records space, in a YouTube interview with journalist and author Katie Couric. Beginning by talking about her background and her discovery of coding in the early days of the computer, Faulkner shares the story of being asked to develop a system capable of tracking patient clinical information over time as part of an assignment, and how being one of the only women in that space at the time ended up being an advantage.
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust has awarded a ten-year EPR contract with a value of £52 million to Epic, taking the trust up to 2036. The trust’s board in its January meeting covered the board assurance framework, noting issues with IT infrastructure, digital maturity, and technical debt. “Lewisham and Greenwich NHS has had a phased roll out over several years of its existing EPR system which has left the trust with a partially deployed EPR for acute services and a separate community EPR with only 80 percent of our clinical systems integrated and linked to the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Patient Master Index,” it stated.
Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group has put forward its suggested timeline for a three-phase delivery of its EPR, with the first two phases to be delivered by April 2027. Elements of the programme have been rescheduled to prevent clashes with urgent and emergency care components during peak winter pressures, according to the board, who also stress that the programme is currently in a “critical phase”. Strong engagement and focus from operational teams and end users is required, it continues, with further workflows to be designed, gaps in the organisational development model being “urgently addressed”, and oversight of the programme to increase from this month forward.
