Annual Review 2009 - Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals

Chapter Six
Lifetime
Achievement
Award winner
Kathy Collins with
Trust Vice-Chair
Roger Trotman and
Colin Buchanan.
Priory 3 staff celebrate with their award.
National Programme
for IT
The Trust’s Connecting for Health
(CfH) Programme’s aim is to deliver
sustained improvements and
benefits to health care professionals
in their delivery of patient
care through modern enabling
technologies as part of the National
Programme for IT (NPfIT).
2007/08 saw the first major stage
of this process with the delivery of
single IT systems across the Trust to
give a foundation on which to deliver
more integrated care. In 2008/09
significant progress has been made
with the deployment of clinical
solutions, as follows:
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Rowley Regis reception staff with Trust
Vice-Chair Roger Trotman and Colin Buchanan.
• Trust-wide roll out of electronic
requesting of tests and investigations
in both outpatient and inpatient
settings. Further extension of
electronic requesting to support,
for example ECGs and other
investigations. Further functionality
also rolled out to ensure progress
towards an Electronic Patient Record
is maintained.
• Implementation of an electronic
discharge summary at the City site,
with plans to roll this out to Sandwell
and Rowley Regis sites, as well as
extend this to incorporate full clinical
coding at discharge.
• Electronic alerting to support
Infection Control for MRSA, C-Diff, TB
etc.
• Implementation of a Maternity
information system with pilot
deployments in the Community.
• Implementation of a new clinical
A&E system at Sandwell, which will
also replace the City A&E system.