Chesterfield Royal is 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.
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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.
Hospital ‘axes the fax’ with paperless clinician-to-clinician referrals
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.
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+.
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.
Community midwives can find it challenging to keep track of paper notes, says Janet Calland.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust deployed Vitalpac to ensure nurses take patient observations on time and in full.
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.
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%.
Located in the North West of England, the Wirral is a peninsula of 60 square miles with a population of 320,000.
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.
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.
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.
Croydon University Hospital is using Vitalpac to improve the quality of patient monitoring
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+.
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.
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.