Our newest roundup of contracts and go lives options contains Oracle Well being supplying an EPR for Barking, Havering and Redbridge College Hospitals NHS Belief (BHRUT) and a digital drugs administration at North West Ambulance Service NHS Belief (NWAS).
Queen Victoria Hospital’s first EPR goes stay
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Basis Belief (QVH) has gone stay with its first digital affected person file (EPR) system.
The specialist hospital in West Sussex, which offers reconstructive surgical procedure, burns care, and rehabilitation providers, labored with Altera Digital Well being to launch the Dawn platform, nicknamed ‘Archie’ on 4 November, changing a lot of their affected person and medical paperwork in paper kind.
NHS England supported the belief with funding via its £1.9bn frontline digitisation venture to assist all trusts throughout England to have an EPR system in place by 2026.
Barking, Havering and Redbridge goes stay with Oracle Well being EPR
Barking, Havering and Redbridge College Hospitals NHS Belief has gone stay with an EPR equipped by Oracle Well being.
The Millennium EPR system launched on 8 November and is stay throughout all of the belief’s hospitals and websites, together with Barking Neighborhood Hospital and St George’s Well being and Wellbeing Hub, making the organisation the final acute belief in London to go digital.
It allows employees concerned in a affected person’s care to entry all related data – together with drugs, check outcomes and allergic reactions – in a single digital medical file.
North West Ambulance Service digitises drugs administration
North West Ambulance Service NHS Belief will digitise its drugs stock course of with a digital pharmacy inventory administration answer.
The system will present NWAS with a completely cloud-hosted platform for medicines stock administration and medicines meeting workflows for the kits utilized in ambulances throughout the area.
System C’s CareFlow Medicines Administration Pharmacy system and TMS Perception’s Prescription Monitoring System shall be delivered beneath the three-year contract.
Velindre College NHS Belief to roll out Higher ePMA
Velindre College NHS Belief has chosen Higher as its most well-liked provider to ship an digital prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) to exchange paper-based processes with digital techniques.
The system, which is ready to go stay on the belief in September 2026, reduces the chance of remedy errors by guaranteeing prescriptions are clear, legible and full, and together with built-in security checks for allergic reactions and dosage accuracy.
An ePMA system is being rolled out to each ward in each hospital in Wales beneath the NHS Wales’ Digital Medicines Programme, led by Digital Well being and Care Wales and funded by the Welsh authorities.
Higher Manchester upgrades PACS cloud portal for picture sharing
NHS hospital trusts throughout the north west of England will share sufferers’ radiology pictures via an upgraded cloud portal from early 2026.
The Higher Manchester Diagnostics Community has appointed UK-based consultancy Shaping Cloud to assist the modernisation of its regional image archiving and communication system (PACS) portal, permitting clinicians to view saved digital pictures at Higher Manchester trusts.
It’s meant to profit sufferers throughout the area by dashing up check outcomes and supporting ongoing affected person care when they’re transferred between clinicians by offering sooner, safer entry to medical imaging and associated information, supporting diagnostic collaboration throughout a number of NHS trusts.
