Lewisham and Greenwich awards £52m EPR contract to Epic

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust has awarded a £52 million contract to Epic to supply a new electronic patient record (EPR) system, with a go-live planned for April 2027.

The trust aims to implement the system through a connect model with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, joining an existing partnership.

A contract notice, published on 16 April 2026, states that the deal started on 26 February and runs for 10 years until 25 March 2036.

Ben Travis, chief executive at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, said: “Signing the contract with Epic is a major milestone for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. This is a major digital system change and a significant clinical and operational step forward for the Trust.

“It will help us improve how information is recorded, shared and used across our services, support staff with better access to information, and create a better experience for patients.”

At a board meeting on 27 January 2026, members said the “implementation timelines were challenging with the anticipated go-live date of April 2027”, but added that joining the partnership would support delivery through a “collaborative, clinically led governance structure”.

They said that this would become “part of a collaborative, clinically led governance structure, and therefore supporting the shortened implementation timeline”.

The full business case for the EPR builds on a previous outline business case which underwent several rounds of national governance oversight.

It was presented to the national EPR Investment Board in January 2026 to support eligibility for frontline digitisation funding, with changes made before submission to NHS England.

The board paper highlights that Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust currently operates a partially deployed EPR across its acute services, alongside a separate community system.

It adds that around 80% of clinical systems are integrated and linked to the patient master index.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust went live with Cerner Millennium at its University Hospital Lewisham site in June 2015.

The contract is the latest win for Epic after four NHS trusts in Dorset and Somerset signed a £222m contract with the US giant to implement a unified EPR system across the region, covering Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, and Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust.

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust went live with an Epic EPR on 3 April 2026, following Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which introduced the system for east Devon in 2020 and for North Devon in 2022.

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust also plans to launch Epic’s EPR in July 2026, creating a single system for staff in multiple hospital and community sites across Devon.

Digital Health News contacted Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust and Epic for comment.

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