Lincolnshire Community Health agrees 5 year EPR deal – HTN Health Tech News

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust has awarded a contract to TPP to continue with the SystmOne electronic patient record.

The contract was awarded through the NHS LPP Clinical Digital Solutions Framework Agreement and is said to last for five years with the option to extend at yearly intervals up to a maximum of ten years. The deal of £3.5 million over the next 5 years could then be extended to £7.1 million, if extended to a ten year term.

In October, United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust announced the preferred supplier for its electronic patient record, to Insight Direct (UK) implementing a Nervecentre solution,  subject to contract and approval of full business case. The trust has been investing in its digital infrastructure as part of the EPR programme, with chief digital information officer Michael Humber commenting that ULTH is “ensuring that we have a right sized, resilient, secure and capable technology platform and end-user devices in place to support our EPR from the start”.

More recently, HTN reported on the Lincolnshire Community Health virtual ward programme, detailing its approach and some of the benefits it has noted, including a frailty virtual ward with just under 500 admissions in its first year, supporting a reported saving of “more than 2,000 hospital bed days”.

Continued development of EPR systems: the wider trend 

On the topic of introducing and developing core clinical systems such as EPRs, we recently spoke to a panel of experts from across the healthcare sector on their own experiences within their organisations. This included exploring potential opportunities and areas of future growth, considering challenges such as integration and interoperability and outlining what “good” looks like in this space.

Cambridge University Hospitals recently provided teams with instant access to their region’s shared care record directly from the trust’s Epic EPR. They noted this as “a major milestone” in the roll-out of their shared care record, with access granted based on job roles and Epic login details.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton and Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts recently introduced Nervecentre’s cloud–native EPR platform across six hospitals. This phase of the rollout focused on deploying mobile capabilities to the hospitals’ emergency departments and inpatient wards, with the trust noting the creation of 435,000 patient notes in the first week.

In February, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust published a tender notice valued at £200k for implementation services and support for its Cerner Millennium (Oracle Healthcare) EPR, within maternity services. It came as part of the trust’s wider, five-year strategy, which began in 2023 and focuses on improving health and reducing inequalities through the optimisation of existing digital tools.