Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives

The latest roundup of contracts and go lives includes electronic patient record (EPR) go-lives at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and St George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospitals.

NHS England awards £13.3m ‘tiger teams’ contract to KPMG

NHS England has awarded a ‘tiger teams’ contract worth £13.3 million to consultancy firm KPMG to support trusts unlikely to meet the March 2026 EPR target.

According to a contract notice published on 9 May 2025, KPMG will “create an experienced, multi-skilled, rapid response intervention service,” also known as a tiger teams service, which will work with providers to support them in reaching a minimum level of digital capability and get EPRs in place.

The contract was awarded on 9 May 2025 and will run until 31 March 2026, following a contract notice published in October 2024 which described the “notoriously complex” nature of EPR implementation.

East Sussex Healthcare signs 10-year EPR deal with Nervecentre

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust signed a 10-year contract with Nervecentre to implement its cloud-native EPR system.

The system, called EmPoweR, will integrate patient administration, inpatient and outpatient care, electronic prescribing and medicine administration, order communications, and theatres into a single, cloud-native platform.

Roll out is planned to start with the initiation phase in May 2025 and will take two years to complete.

Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital rolls out EPR

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (RJAH) in Shropshire has rolled out an EPR system from System C.

The Apollo system, an integrated digital record of patient care that draws together information from all health systems that store patient information and data, went live at the trust between 9 May 2025 and 12 May 2025.

It allows clinicians to order tests or medications electronically, review results remotely and see which beds are in use.

EPR goes live across St George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospitals

A groupwide EPR system has been rolled out across St George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospitals (GESH).

The system, called iClipPro, which went live on 9 May 2025, integrates multiple IT systems used across the trusts’ sites into one, giving staff a complete overview of a person’s care in real time.

The contract for St George’s was signed in February 2022 and covers the period between January 2022 through to May 2032.

Epsom and St Helier signed the contract in December 2021 which runs through to December 2031.

Two Shropshire trusts go live with Access Intelligent Care Platform

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) and Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust have gone live with the Access Intelligent Care Platform (AICP).

Developed by Access Health, Support and Care (HSC), the digital solution went live in May 2025, with the aim of providing frontline teams with faster access to the information they need to deliver more connected, personalised care.

The AICP brings together data from multiple clinical systems, including separate instances of the Access Rio electronic patient record (EPR), in a single dashboard.

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS FT goes live with EPR

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with an EPR system from Epic.

It will provide a new core clinical information system for Birmingham Women’s and Children’s, replacing current IT systems, including patient administration systems and several legacy specialty systems.

The trust went live with the system on 15 May 2025, after signing a contract with Epic in January 2024.