Belfast Health and Social Care Trust is to go live with its electronic patient record, encompass, on 6 June 2024, as part of plans to provide every person in Northern Ireland with their own health and social care record. The trust previously supported South Eastern Trust in their own roll-out […]
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London Ambulance Service awards EPR contract and framework agreement awarded to five suppliers for ambulance services EPR
The East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub, in collaboration with the National Ambulance Procurement Board, has awarded a framework agreement contract to five suppliers for the provision and support of electronic patient record systems, with an estimated value of up to £20 million, to be utilised by ambulance services […]
Ireland’s National Forensic Mental Health Service launches new electronic medical record
Ireland’s National Forensic Mental Health Service (NFMHS) has launched its new electronic medical record, InterSystems TrakCare, with the aim of promoting a “safer, more timely and efficient” service by enabling staff to spend more time providing personalised care and supporting multidisciplinary team coordination. Replacing the service’s previous manual paper system, […]
Digital strategy development and transition plans for new NHS trust in South East
Recent board papers from Isle of Wight NHS Trust, Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust revolve around ‘Project Fusion’, which will see a number of their services brought together under a new trust; as part of their meeting, the boards discussed the new trust’s developing digital strategy […]
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde publishes contract notice for neonatal EPR
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has published a contract notice for a neonatal intensive care cloud-based electronic patient record system that “will have the ability to adapt with the ever-changing technology advances in neonatal care”, helping to reduce manual work and paper usage. The contract duration will be a period […]
Northern Ireland South Eastern Trust goes live with EPR
Northern Ireland’s South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust has gone live with their new electronic patient record, encompass, in what the Department of Health calls a “digital milestone” marking the “culmination of over seven years of work to improve how health and social care is delivered across Northern Ireland”. […]
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust signs 10-year EPR contract
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust has signed a 10-year contract for an EPR system with System C designed to support integration with partner trust Walsall Healthcare, along with enabling integration with other services provided by the same supplier across Black Country ICS. The roll-out of the new system will involve […]
Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board awards £1m EPR contract for eye-care digitisation
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, acting on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board, has announced the awarding of a contract worth an estimated £1,183,936 for eye-care digitisation to support NHS Wales’ strategic ambition of providing care closer to home where possible and supporting people to maintain independence through […]
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton and Chesterfield Royal Hospital name preferred EPR supplier
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS FT and Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS FT have this week named their preferred supplier for a joint electronic patient record system, with Nervecentre. The trusts confirmed Nervecentre as the preferred bidder for the integrated EPR, ahead of the organisations submitting a full business […]
Digital priorities from North East London, Somerset, Nottingham and Northamptonshire integrated care systems
For our latest industry view, we asked four representatives from integrated care systems for their thoughts on the digital priorities in their region – and what they are looking forward to in the future with regards to digital in health. Osman Bhatti, GP and chief clinical information officer at North […]
