United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals selects EPR provider

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a contract with supplier Nervecentre for an EPR, marking a move towards fully digitised patient health records.

The agreement aims to implement a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system across all of the trust’s acute hospitals, with an anticipated rollout of September 2025.

This EPR system is designed to provide clinicians with secure and instant access to real-time patient data at the point of care. The cloud-based system is expected to increase the speed and efficiency of information sharing across departments, wards and hospital sites, improving access for staff, patients and healthcare professionals throughout the Lincolnshire care system.

The 10-year contract follows a competitive tender process and the allocation of funding from NHS England in May 2025. NHS England is investing £1.9 billion to support NHS trusts in achieving a core level of digitisation and implementing EPRs, aiming to ensure health and care staff have access to necessary information when and where it is needed.

Professor Colin Farquharson, group chief medical officer at United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals, said: “…within the next year we will start to see patient data in real time, and this will allow some areas to start to have immediate access to a comprehensive range of patient data at the bedside. For clinicians, the EPR represents new opportunities that we are excited to see realised.”

Michael Humber, group director of digital services at the trust, added: “By using technology we will be delivering tools for our frontline staff that support them to focus on improving care and increasing patient safety. We have laid great foundations to support our EPR by improving our digital infrastructure and we look forward to beginning the Nervecentre rollout across our trust from September 2025.”

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals joins a growing regional network of acute trusts that are utilising Nervecentre’s platform, including Northampton General Hospital, which went live with the system at the end of June 2025. This will encourage collaboration among the hospitals, enabling secure data exchange while respecting localised record-sharing preferences.

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust also signed a 10-year contract with Nervecentre to implement its EPR system, which began its rollout in May 2025. The end of June saw Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust select Nervecentre as its preferred supplier to implement an electronic patient record (EPR) too.