NHS National Services Scotland has opened a tender, worth an estimated £216 million, to procure a new single Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). On behalf of all NHS Health Boards in Scotland, the procurement aims to replace existing Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) held at individual Health Boards over the next […]
Secondary Care
App to help prevent acute kidney injury and pneumonia offered to trusts
NHS trusts are being offered a free trial of an app aimed to help prevent hospital-acquired acute kidney injury and pneumonia. The Compass app, provides NHS clinical staff with a tool for accurately assessing each patient’s risk of developing the conditions in hospital, so that appropriate action can be taken […]
North West clinical trainees staff bank goes live with 6 trusts
A new initiative led by St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with 6 trusts to form a collaborative staff bank to pool their temporary staff and automate shifts for clinical trainees. The North West Doctors in Training Collaborative Staff Bank is being formed to enable up to 35 […]
Hull University Teaching deploys DXC Technology’s mobile app
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has deployed DXC Technology’s Clinical Aide app to provide staff with mobile access to its electronic patient record. The app provides access to a patient’s allergies, problems, observations, medication, results and other documented information, and is supporting healthcare teams at the hospital access patient records in […]
Video: Transforming to a paper-light environment at Leeds Teaching Hospitals
For HTN Now November we hosted a session with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to explore their journey to digitise patient records. In the session we hear about the implementation and lessons learned from their programme to become paper-light, and we also hear about the digital strategy and plans for […]
£16m funding for trusts to introduce digital prescribing
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced 16 NHS trusts across England will receive a share of £16 million to introduce electronic prescribing. The funding is being introduced to help trusts replace paper-based systems, with an aim to support the entire NHS become digital for prescribing by 2024. […]
Leicester’s Hospitals live with mobile closed-loop EPMA
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has gone live with mobile closed-loop electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) at Leicester General Hospital. Working with software supplier Nervecentre, the EPMA programme is part of their electronic patient record journey to deliver a mobile first digital patient record system. The new EPMA module […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ picks Epic
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT has announced a new partnership with Epic to implement a new single integrated electronic health record system across the organisation. The electronic patient record is planned to go live in April 2023, and the trust will also work with Epic to deploy its patient portal. […]
Leeds Teaching goes live with Sectra for pathology
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with the picture archiving and communication system (PACS) from Sectra for pathology services. The trust becomes the first of an initial six trusts in the Northern Pathology Imaging Co-operative to deploy the solution as part of a digital pathology initiative across the region. […]
HTN Trends Series: EPR Trends in the UK
By David Kwo, Dr Nick Beard, Dr Fortunato Castillo, Jagdip Grewal, Dr Alec Price-Forbes [i] Trends in electronic patient record systems (EPRs) deployment in UK and US hospitals, where EPRs are used across care-settings, have potentially significant implications for Integrated Care Systems (ICSs). What types of EPRs are there? There […]
