Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives

Our latest roundup of contracts and go lives features includes Oracle Health supplying an EPR for Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) and a digital medicine management at North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (NWAS).

Queen Victoria Hospital’s first EPR goes live

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (QVH) has gone live with its first electronic patient record (EPR) system.

The specialist hospital in West Sussex, which provides reconstructive surgery, burns care, and rehabilitation services, worked with Altera Digital Health to launch the Sunrise platform, nicknamed ‘Archie’ on 4 November, replacing many of their patient and clinical documents in paper form.

NHS England supported the trust with funding through its £1.9bn frontline digitisation project to help all trusts across England to have an EPR system in place by 2026.

Barking, Havering and Redbridge goes live with Oracle Health EPR

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with an EPR supplied by Oracle Health.

The Millennium EPR system launched on 8 November and is live across all the trust’s hospitals and sites, including Barking Community Hospital and St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub, making the organisation the last acute trust in London to go digital.

It enables staff involved in a patient’s care to access all relevant information – including medications, test results and allergies – in a single digital medical record.

North West Ambulance Service digitises medicine management

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust will digitise its medicine inventory process with a digital pharmacy stock management solution.

The system will provide NWAS with a fully cloud-hosted platform for medicines inventory management and medicines assembly workflows for the kits used in ambulances across the region.

System C’s CareFlow Medicines Management Pharmacy system and TMS Insight’s Prescription Tracking System will be delivered under the three-year contract.

Velindre University NHS Trust to roll out Better ePMA

Velindre University NHS Trust has selected Better as its preferred supplier to deliver an electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) to replace paper-based processes with digital systems.

The system, which is set to go live at the trust in September 2026, reduces the risk of medication errors by ensuring prescriptions are clear, legible and complete, and including built-in safety checks for allergies and dosage accuracy.

An ePMA system is being rolled out to every ward in every hospital in Wales under the NHS Wales’ Digital Medicines Programme, led by Digital Health and Care Wales and funded by the Welsh government.

Greater Manchester upgrades PACS cloud portal for image sharing

NHS hospital trusts across the north west of England will share patients’ radiology images through an upgraded cloud portal from early 2026.

The Greater Manchester Diagnostics Network has appointed UK-based consultancy Shaping Cloud to support the modernisation of its regional picture archiving and communication system (PACS) portal, allowing clinicians to view stored digital images at Greater Manchester trusts.

It is intended to benefit patients across the region by speeding up test results and supporting ongoing patient care when they are transferred between clinicians by providing faster, more secure access to medical imaging and related data, supporting diagnostic collaboration across multiple NHS trusts.