Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust (Liverpool, UK) was recently named Health Tech Team of the Year by UK healthcare publication HTN. The HTN Now awards recognise digital innovation projects across the UK’s health and care industry that make improvements for both patients and staff.
Winning in the category of Frontline Digitisation Project of the Year, the Trust was recognised for its work as it went LIVE with the MEDITECH Expanse Electronic Patient Record (EPR) through their digiCare Programme.
Liverpool Women's became the first Trust in the UK to go live with the MEDITECH Expanse EPR in July 2023. As part of the implementation, the Trust sought to replace multiple patient record systems (including a legacy MEDITECH platform) with its new Expanse EPR aimed at improving care delivery and clinical processes.
This award also recognises the dedication of the hospital's clinical digital and programme delivery team, which focuses on patient safety and clinical processes. As part of its goal to establish new processes throughout the organisation, the Trust deployed a ‘start stop continue’ exercise, which gained praise from NHS England. The ‘stop start continue’ technique is designed for teams to proactively evaluate the effectiveness and productiveness of their workflow processes as they go.
Here are a few more ways this leading women’s hospital is using their EPR to improve care delivery and create efficiencies for staff:
- A customised maternity interface fully integrates referrals, deliveries, and births with the maternity system.
- Staff have live access to Referral to Treatment, improving waiting list management.
- Digital whiteboards within clinical areas provide clinical oversight and more timely reporting, both internally and externally.
- The digitisation of clinical letters for outpatients enables more timely information for patients, as well as time savings for staff.
With the Expanse EPR serving as the organisation’s digital front door, clinical staff no longer need to log into multiple systems to access or update important patient information such as test results. This streamlined process saves time and improves patient safety by having all health data in one shared location.
“We congratulate everyone at Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust for winning the HTN award,” said Charlotte Scott, Executive General Manager, MEDITECH UK and Ireland. “It’s great to see their hard work and dedication to digital transformation recognised, further demonstrating why they are leaders in healthcare innovation in the UK.”