Using software to facilitate positive, sustainable change
Support and training is vital if your staff are to see the value of new software and commit to embedding and sustaining the necessary changes in practice.
Case studies
CareFlow Vitals delivers marked sepsis improvement at Barnsley
CareFlow Vitals
Since introducing e-observations software, Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has seen immediate and marked improvements in recognising and treating sepsis, and ultimately in improving patient safety outcomes. The Trust is now among the best performing trusts in the country in its identification and treatment of patients with sepsis.
E-observation software helps identify high-risk patients with cognitive impairment at Portsmouth
CareFlow Vitals
Research teams at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust have used routine data collected using an e-observation system to conduct a retrospective study into unscheduled admissions of patients aged 75+.
An electronic solution to recording observations at Barking, Havering & Redbridge
When James Avery speaks about the implementation of electronic vital signs recording at his trust, he is very clear that it was not an IT project.
Maternity at Southport & Ormskirk: ‘They’ve got information they didn’t previously have’
Community midwives can find it challenging to keep track of paper notes, says Janet Calland.
Learning from experience: what makes for a successful IT deployment?
For over 25 years System C has been helping Trusts across the UK to deploy hospital systems on time and to budget. This experience in putting in both its own systems and third-party software has allowed the company to develop and refine a standard deployment methodology.
Vitals software used to screen for alcohol misuse to identify hospital patients at risk of developing associated liver disease
CareFlow Vitals
A landmark three-year research study at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has for the first time established the feasibility and effectiveness of universal screening for alcohol misuse to identify at risk patients.
e-Observations software improves patient safety at East Sussex
CareFlow Vitals
Since introducing electronic observations software, East Sussex Healthcare Trust has seen marked improvements in patient safety – notably with reduced cardiac arrest rates and improving outcomes for patients. Other benefits include smarter, more pro-active working and earlier interventions. The software has also helped the Trust develop a culture of improvement, using real-time data to drive change.
Integrating London’s child health records: safer and better care in just four months
CarePlus Child Health
The System C & Graphnet Care Alliance has worked in partnership with London’s commissioned services to replace 18 separate child record systems across 32 boroughs with a single pan-London electronic patient record solution, in record time.
Unifying child health records across the West Midlands
CarePlus Child Health
Child health records for 2.3 million children living across the West Midlands region are being held on a single region-wide database using some more text to go here that will trail off.
Vitalpac improves safety at Croydon by improving patient observations
CareFlow Vitals
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust deployed Vitalpac to ensure nurses take patient observations on time and in full.
Mind the gap: London Borough pioneers data sharing to join up health and social care services
Medway EPR & Liquidlogic social care case management
Residents in the London Borough of Islington are benefiting from the first live information sharing project of its kind aimed at improving joined up working between NHS and social care services.
Vitalpac helps Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust reduce mortality by 15%
CareFlow Vitals
Queen Alexandra Hospital (QAH) in Portsmouth pioneered a new approach to keeping patients safe, which over the past seven years has resulted in a fall in hospital wide mortality at the Trust by 15.5%.
Working together: seeing the bigger picture - Wirral Council
Liquidlogic Children’s Social Care
Located in the North West of England, the Wirral is a peninsula of 60 square miles with a population of 320,000.
Helping to reduce costs with mobile working - Cumbria
Liquidlogic Children’s Social Care
Cumbria is the second largest county in England but has a population of less than 500,000. Over 50% of these people live in rural communities, bringing with it diverse and unique challenges.
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust reduces norovirus outbreaks by 95%
CareFlow Vitals
Outbreaks of norovirus at Queen Alexandra Hospital (QAH) have fallen from 20 per year to just five over three years after the introduction of a novel real-time surveillance system.
Intuitive social care - Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Liquidlogic Children’s Social Care
The borough of Barnsley covers 127 square miles and is split into two geographically distinct areas, one highly urbanised and the other rural with disparate locations.
Vitalpac helps Croydon University Hospital reduce cardiac arrests by 70%
CareFlow Vitals
Croydon University Hospital is using Vitalpac to improve the quality of patient monitoring
No time to lose - East Sussex County Council
Liquidlogic Children’s Social Care
With a population of just over half a million, East Sussex covers an area of 1,725 square kilometres (660 square miles) and is ranked the highest of all 35 counties in England for percentage of the population aged 90+ and second highest for 75+ and 85+.
Facilitating a joined-up approach with early help - Rochdale
Liquidlogic Children’s Social Care
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council lies approximately 10 miles North East to the city of Manchester. The Council supports a racially varied population of over 200,000 with the market town of Rochdale being the largest settlement and administrative centre.
Significant savings in social care - Cheshire West & Chester
Liquidlogic Children’s Social Care
Located in the North West of England, Cheshire West & Chester Council has a population of 329,500 and covers 350 square miles. The Council began investigating procurement of new social care systems in 2009. In 2010 it was served with an Ofsted Improvement notice for Children’s Services.
