Five Boroughs Partnership NHS Trust has become the first mental health trust to go-live with Lorenzo Regional Care Release 1.
The trust has gone live with the system in its Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), as part of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
According to the trust, Halton and Wigan were the first two boroughs to go-live, followed by St Helen’s, Warrington and Knowsley. The system is now being used by around 150 clinical and administration staff.
Marilyn Nichols, head of services at the trust, said: “Clinicians have engaged exceptionally well in developing the business processes and clinical content for Release 1.
“As part of the preparation towards go-live, clinicians have been very positive about the system and how it will begin to support clinical practice.”
The go-live is the first phase of a programme designed to replace the trust’s patient administration and clinical systems with Lorenzo Regional Care.
Core Lorenzo and clinical documents will be used in conjunction with and interfaced to the trust’s iPM PAS, which is also provided by iSoft, until it is replaced at the end of the second phase of the programme.
Tarnia Woods, a CAMHS nurse, said: “The system is easy to use and the layout is user-friendly. I particularly like the risk indicator form which is thorough, yet easy to use.”
Last week, E-Health Insider exclusively revealed that Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust had also quietly gone-live with Lorenzo Release 1.
Other early adopter sites already using Lorenzo strategic software on a limited scale include University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and NHS South Birmingham.
Another organisation, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, is working towards becoming the first mental health trust to deploy Lorenzo Release 1.9 in November 2009.
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