A year on from our last coverage, the board of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust has offered an update on its trust strategy, celebrating successes to date, responding to changes in the external environment, and exploring priorities around digital to 2027. “The Oxleas Strategy 2024 – 27 aligns squarely with the […]
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Progress on single EPR, centralised EDMS, digital infrastructure at Northern Care Alliance
Northern Care Alliance (NCA) NHS Foundation Trust is working towards a new EPR and a centralised EDMS, as well as focusing on digital for pathway redesign. “The creation of NCA has merged two separate trusts with differing digital capabilities, maturity levels and digital infrastructure,” the trust states. “This combined with […]
University Hospital Southampton shares progress and plans for EPMA
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust has shared successes from 2024-25 and next steps for digital in medicines management, focusing on digital system upgrades and improving electronic prescribing uptake. In March 2025, the trust upgraded to the latest version of its CareFlow Medicine Management software to facilitate eprescribing and pharmacy […]
Deep dive: AI in healthcare, what progress has been made in the past 12 months?
Over the past 12 months, what progress has been made with AI in healthcare? Here we share some of the notable news stories, webinars, deep dives and features. Last year, the UK Government launched its AI Opportunities Action Plan, accepting recommendations to expand computing capacity, establish AI growth zones, unlock […]
East and North Hertfordshire NHS outlines role of digital in adult and children’s safeguarding
An annual safeguarding report from East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust has highlighted the role of digital in adult and children’s safeguarding, including the full digitalisation of s42 and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, and the successful launch of a maternity EPR. A bespoke digital risk assessment tool has been […]
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s digital plan highlights post-EPR optimisation and efforts to overcome challenges with legacy systems
A roadmap for delivery of Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust’s latest strategy to 2030 has outlined a series of digital priorities across the next four years, covering post-go-live EPR optimisation, piloting AI, cloud migration, and a device and infrastructure refresh. For 2026-27, aims include publishing a new digital […]
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS FT reviews EPR programme following October go-live
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust has reviewed its EPR programme, following the implementation of Epic in October 2025, highlighting positive outcomes, learnings, and early service impact. The chief executive noted that the experience of EPR implementation was positive, “the system did not fail, we have not returned […]
Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group maps digital systems planning for alignment
The board of Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group, covering Lincolnshire Community Health Services (LCHS) NHS Trust and United Lincolnshire Hospitals (ULTH) NHS Trust, has updated on digital work stream progress and remaining group development programme milestones, recognising “good progress” but “slippage on agreed timescales for some actions”. An exercise […]
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospitals and Health Group takes steps to improve cyber security
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group board most recent meeting explored steps being taken at Epsom and St Helier (ESTH) and St George’s (SGUH) to improve cyber security and information governance. Cyber security remains “a significant area of risk”, the board says, with progress against […]
Great Ormond Street Hospital in-house developed platform for clinical intelligence from routine health data
Great Ormond Street Hospital has unveiled a new platform designed to generate clinical intelligence from routine health data, developed in-house by its Data Research, Innovation and Virtual Environments (DRIVE) unit. The trust highlights that whilst EPRs have enabled hospitals to capture a “huge amount” of information about patients and their […]
