Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives

Our latest roundup of contracts and go lives features planned Nervecentre electronic patient record (EPR) rollouts at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

NHSE awards £45m contract to advance preventative healthcare

Digital technology firm Kainos, alongside a consortium of smaller companies, secured a contract to strengthen NHS digital capabilities for preventative healthcare in England.

The award through NHS England’s Digital Prevention Service Portfolio (DPSP), worth around £45m to £68m, will improve access to vaccinations and screenings through the NHS App and accelerate the delivery of personalised healthcare in line with the 10 year health plan.

Kainos will work with Public Digital, Baringa, Healthia, Helix Centre, Scroll and Ethos, for up to three years to scale the Digital NHS health check service, enabling citizens to complete health assessments and receive tailored advice at home.

Nottingham Hospitals declares critical incident after EPR go-live

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust went live with Nervecentre’s EPR over the first weekend in November, but issues with the technical roll out of the system led to the trust declaring a critical incident at 4pm on 4 November 2025.

The trust said that issues with the new EPR added to its ability to “manage the current levels of pressure” and helped cause 24 ambulances to be waiting outside the Queen’s Medical Centre Emergency Department when the incident was called.

The critical incident was stood down by the trust at 2.42pm on 6 November 2025.

DHSC awards £8m IT contract to support NHS England abolition

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) awarded a contract worth up to £8 million to support its IT infrastructure as NHS England merges into the department.

Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer announced plans in March 2025 to bring NHSE back into the DHSC with the goal of ending the duplication resulting from two organisations doing the same job.

An award notice, published on 15 October 2025, states that a contract has been won by Cognizant Worldwide to help bolster the organisation’s IT infrastructure in preparation for the transition, which will see the majority of NHSE’s operations moved into the DHSC.

Royal Orthopaedic Hospital selects InterSystems as EPR supplier

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (ROH) selected InterSystems as its electronic patient record (EPR) supplier.

ROH is one of the last remaining trusts without an EPR under NHS England’s £2bn Frontline Digitisation programme, which aims to ensure that every provider meets a core level of digitisation by March 2026.

The trust said that implementation planning is underway with the EPR programme planned for 2026.

York and Scarborough to go live with Nervecentre EPR in 2026

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will go live with an EPR system supplied by Nervecentre in 2026.

Nervecentre was confirmed as the preferred bidder for the EPR contract last year after scoring the highest in a joint tender process, but no date was initially announced for the rollout.

A trust board paper, published in October 2025, has confirmed that the EPR go live is expected to commence on 27 February 2026.

Harrogate and District to go live with Nervecentre EPR this month

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust is about to go live with an integrated EPR system from Nervecentre.

The first phase of the trust-wide EPR programme at Harrogate and District is scheduled to begin in November 2025, with subsequent phases planned for April 2026 and September 2026.

It is part of a joint EPR programme with York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which will commence the go-live of its EPR on 27 February next year.

Bed management system for mental health to go live in South West

The South West Provider Collaborative (SWPC) will deploy an electronic referral and bed management solution for specialist mental health services in the region.

SWPC is partnership which includes NHS trusts, independent sector organisations and a community interest company, with Devon Partnership NHS Trust as the lead provider.

From April 2026, the solution from Novari Health will be used within child and adolescent mental health services, adult eating disorders, inpatient perinatal services, and secure mental illness services to manage referrals, mental health bed capacity and patient flow.