Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust today announces the successful go live of its new patient administration and electronic patient record system.

The new system, Medway, supplied by System C, a McKesson Company, went live on 28thSeptember, at Stafford and Cannock Chase Hospitals.

Gill Baker, the Trust Associate Director of IM&T said, "The migration of around 15 million records from our previous PAS system was conducted over night from Friday to Saturday. All wards went "live" Saturday evening and then Outpatients departments from Monday, 30th September. There was no reduction in hospital activity over this period."

The Medway modules that have been implemented include a Master Patient Index, inpatients, outpatients, case note tracking, and results reporting. These were provided with an integrated data warehouse and reporting tool. Integration with existing systems at the Trust is provided through the Medway Connect integration platform.

Paul Richards, Managing Director, Health and Social Care, McKesson, comments, "We are proud of our continuing track record of highly efficient Medway deployments.  The successful go-live at Mid-Staffs is due to the combined efforts and professionalism of the Trust's operational staff and the System C team. The smooth migration of 15 million patient records with zero drop-outs or lost data highlights our ability to work with Trust staff to deliver expert implementations which allow the NHS to focus on providing high quality care for patients."

Dr John Hawkins added, "We are delighted that we have now got the new system up and running. We have carried out all the training and I and my colleagues are looking forward to using it on a day-to-day basis. This new system will benefit patients because it will capture information about their whole journey within our organisation, which means that doctors, nurses and support staff will have access to all their information in one place, helping us to make the right decisions about the best care."