Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust shared its organisational strategy for 2025 – 2030 last week, setting out its vision, objectives and measures, as well noting the opportunities to utilise data, innovation and a digital-first approach. The trust opens with its vision to state “delivering the strategy will take time and […]
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Liverpool Combined Authority commits funding to children’s healthcare innovation
The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has confirmed £4.16 million in innovation zone funding for children’s healthcare innovation at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. The funding is supporting the development of a Paediatric Open Innovation Zone designed to develop, test and deploy technologies to tackle “some of the biggest […]
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton and Chesterfield Royal Hospital deploys Nervecentre EPR
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton and Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts have introduced Nervecentre’s cloud–native EPR platform. Launched across six hospitals in February, as part of a phased roll-out, this phase focused on deploying mobile capabilities to the hospitals’ emergency departments and inpatient wards. The trusts report that […]
Barnsley Hospital NHS board notes nursing documentation review, EPR, patient flow procurement
Barnsley Hospital NHS FT’s latest board meeting has highlighted progress on a nursing documentation review to digitise 50 percent of paper forms, implementing e-consent, speech recognition, and automation projects, its procurement of a patient flow system, as well as considering whether an upgrade of the EPR to ensure full functionality […]
Frimley Health NHS FT strategy to 2030 focuses on modernising infrastructure, digital for productivity, modern ways of working
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust’s latest strategy to 2030 has been published, with a focus on modernising infrastructure, introducing digital tools and technologies supporting productivity, and enhancing digital skills to support modern ways of working. “This is an extremely exciting time for the trust” it states, highlighting the delivery of […]
Northumbria Healthcare NHS FT opens procurement for digital dental management EPR system
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has opened a tender notice valued at £100k, for the procurement of a digital dental management EPR system. The trust notes the system must be able to provide a number of services, such as referral management; diary and appointment management; text reminders; clinical record keeping; […]
Salford Royal Hospital becomes latest NCA site to introduce Sectra PACS
Salford Royal Hospital is now live with Sectra Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), for reporting and diagnostic imaging. Going live with the system provides reporters and radiologists at Salford Royal the ability to view and report on imaging studies, “rather than having to navigate separate systems to provide reports […]
Bradford Teaching Hospitals reveals key findings of virtual wards programme
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has shared an evaluation of its virtual royal infirmary (VRI) programme, demonstrating the impact of its “hospital-level care directly to patients’ homes”. Since launching in June 2023, the service covers seven specialities, across acute medicine, cardiology, gastroenterology, general surgery, renal, respiratory and vascular care, […]
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust opens procurement to improve maternity EPR
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust has published a tender notice for implementation services and support for its Cerner Millennium (Oracle Healthcare) electronic patient record, within maternity services. The trust hopes to “uplift” the maternity element of the EPR, to target “improvements to usage and data quality issues”, which was first […]
Airedale NHS FT launches Careology app for cancer patients
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust recently won a bid to fund the rollout of the Careology cancer app, which will be used within the trust to provide 24/7 support to cancer patients and help to understand their needs. The Careology app is said to help keep patients connected with the relevant […]
