This contracts and go lives roundup contains six London trusts rolling out a digital software for psychological well being care, and College Hospitals of Derby and Burton and Chesterfield Royal Hospital signing a joint contract for a brand new Nervecentre EPR.
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS FT launches DrDoctor affected person portal
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Basis Belief has partnered with DrDoctor to supply an internet portal for outpatients, lowering the necessity for paper appointment letters.
The affected person engagement portal (PEP), which went reside on 14 Could 2024, permits outpatients at Cheltenham Normal Hospital, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and Stroud Maternity Hospital to view digital letters about appointments on-line and obtain textual content reminders.
The five-year contract with DrDoctor started in 2023, with growth going down on the PEP since December 2023 and extra performance deliberate to be added all through 2024 and 2025.
In summer time 2024, the belief plans to combine the PEP with the NHS app, in order that sufferers can decide to obtain notifications as an alternative of textual content messages, in addition to introducing the performance for sufferers to vary their appointment occasions on-line.
Jersey Normal Hospital implements digital prescribing for outpatients
The Authorities of Jersey’s Well being and Group Companies (HCS) has carried out a brand new digital prescription system on the Jersey Normal Hospital’s pharmacy, which it goals to cut back ready occasions and enhance affected person security.
Most prescriptions will now be submitted electronically to the hospital pharmacy through the digital prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) system with majority of sufferers now not receiving paper prescriptions.
The Authorities of Jersey stated in an announcement, revealed on 3 Could 2024, that the change is a part of its “ongoing dedication to streamlining processes and enhancing remedy security and operational effectivity”.
OneLondon pronounces digital software for psychological well being care
Six psychological well being trusts in London will roll out a digital software in 2024-2025 to help evaluation of individuals detained below the Psychological Well being Act (MHA), OneLondon has introduced.
The OneLondon eMHA programme, supported with round £5 million NHS England frontline digitisation funding, will substitute present paper-based processes with Thalamos eMHA software program to hitch up admission, remedy, hospital and discharge care pathways.
East London NHS Basis Belief would be the first to begin utilizing the answer in summer time 2024 with the opposite London trusts to comply with by April 2025.
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital rolls out System C PAS
A brand new affected person administration system (PAS) was rolled out at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Belief final weekend, as the primary part of its deployment of a brand new EPR from System C.
The roll out of the PAS is the primary part of a significant digital transformation programme taking place on the belief, which goals to enhance look after sufferers by way of using fashionable, digital methods.
The PAS has changed The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital’s earlier system that had been in place for 20 years. Its deployment noticed over a million affected person data be transferred, whereas greater than 5,000 members of workers have been skilled up on the brand new system.
UHDB and CRH signal joint contract with Nervecentre for brand spanking new EPR
College Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB) and Chesterfield Royal Hospital (CRH) have signed a joint contract for a brand new digital affected person document system (EPR) offered by Nervecentre.
The collaborative method to procuring an built-in EPR answer throughout two neighbouring trusts is anticipated to convey important advantages to sufferers and workers.
Nervecentre’s fashionable interface and skill to work on cell units means workers can have quick access to affected person data on the bedside, on the click on of a button. The system can even help digital clinics, permitting care to be extra accessible for sufferers throughout Derbyshire and Staffordshire.
Nervecentre was introduced as the popular provider in December 2023, with the contract formally being signed following a profitable utility for nationwide funding from NHSE in March 2024.
The brand new EPR system is anticipated to take as much as two years to completely implement throughout each trusts.