Three NHS trusts and NHS England have approved a financial plan for a shared electronic patient record system. Following approval of the outline business case, The Queen Elizabeth Hospitals King’s Lynn NHS FT, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS FT and James Paget University Hospitals NHS FT now have the go-ahead to procure […]
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Mid and South Essex ICS explores unified electronic patient record
A prior information notice has been published by Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System to procure a unified electronic patient record system. Essex University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Mid and South Essex Foundation Trust are currently at the outline business case stage to procure and replace their existing electronic […]
South East Coast Ambulance Service opens data platform tender
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust has opened a tender for the provision of a patient records data solution. The trust aims to implement an organisation-wide holistic data solution, to encompass all processes related to the primary and secondary use requirements for patient data. Currently, South East Coast […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ publishes review of IT critical incident
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT has published a final report following a series of reviews into an IT critical incident on 19 July when two separate data centres suffered failures. The review collates a series of investigations, covering the trust’s methodology, timeline of events, main findings and recommendations for […]
Radar Healthcare partners with Circle Health Group
Radar Healthcare has partnered with Circle Health Group to introduce its risk management and compliance system across 54 hospitals. With the aim of unlocking safety data to improve patient outcomes, Circle Health hospitals will move away from using multiple systems and use one platform across its network. The project started […]
North West trusts tender for integrated digital pathology solution
A joint tender opportunity involving trusts across the North West has opened. The tender is valued at £10 million for the provision and implementation of an integrated digital pathology solution across the Lancashire and South Cumbria region. The trusts involved include: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust University Hospitals of […]
Royal Marsden counts down to EHR launch
The Royal Marsden NHS FT has started to count down to the launch of Connect, its new electronic health record. Described as “the largest and most important digital transformation programme in The Royal Marsden’s history”, Epic will be introduced across the trust in March 2023. This month has seen the […]
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust shares digital strategy until 2025
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has published its digital strategy and plans for the next three years. The strategy opens with comments from chief clinical information officer, Ashley May, in which she states: “I believe that digital systems can support long-term change and improvement in this trust. It […]
£9 million contract awarded to Frontline Digitisation delivery partner
NHS England has awarded a contract valued up to £9 million to a delivery partner to support its Frontline Digitisation programme. PwC LLP has been successful in the tender process, to provide a support offer to the NHS England Transformation Directorate programme, which includes providing advice, expertise and intervention (where required) […]
Epic to launch website for suppliers to share interoperability
Epic, the electronic health record supplier, has shared plans to launch a website where health tech suppliers can self-report interoperability. Suppliers will be able to list their innovation and report if they have achieved successful data exchange with Epic. It is open to any tech vendor with an aim for […]
