NHS trusts EPR transformation tales

Hear a range of EPR transformation tales, covering collaboration, convergence and digital maturity. Gain insight into how digital technology can help to transform the management of long-term conditions and tackle the increasingly challenged waiting lists. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust share how they are creating over 1 million clinical documents a month through implementing and EPR. A collective of Sussex and Surrey Trusts will highlight how a collaborative approach has achieved financial efficiencies and benefited from sharing procurement tasks and evaluation expertise across the partners. Understand how Digital Health and Care Wales are moving forward after open assessments testing trusts digital system maturity.

Chair: Dr Paul Rice

chief digital and information officer, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS FT and Airedale NHS FT

Dr Paul Rice joined Bradford and Airedale NHS Foundation Trusts from his role as Regional Director of Digital Transformation for NHS England and NHS Improvement in the North East and Yorkshire. He leads on the delivery of digital programmes across both organisations and at Place within our Act as One Programme. This work includes driving forward Airedale’s ambition as a Digital Aspirant to secure an enterprise wide Electronic Patient Record, updating and improving the Infrastructure, Networks and Cyber resilience of both organisations, and leading major digital system upgrades including Laboratory Imaging Systems.

He is committed to programmes of inclusive digital transformation and passionate about diversifying the skills base and creating professional career opportunities for current and future digital and data workforces. He is also a firm believer in information technology being a means to an end not an end in itself.

Stuart Cooper

EPR programme director, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Stuart has over 30 years’ experience managing and delivering transformation programmes across the NHS. Joining the NHS in 1992 as a database specialist, he progressed through the stages of Programme Management leading the then QIPP and Digital Transformation agenda for Primary Care organisations across the Black Country. He is currently the EPR Programme Director at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, deploying Sunrise EPR to underpin clinical transformation across the Trust. Ensuring digital technology improves patient outcomes is a passion.

Louise Williams

deputy chief digital information officer, Sussex Community NHS FT

Louise Williams is the Deputy Chief Digital Information Officer for Sussex Community Foundation Trust (SCFT). SCFT is a large Community Trust in the South-East of England which has received Digital Aspirant funding over the past few years to support an innovative, digital transformation programme supporting their workforce in delivering care in patient’s homes. Louise has twenty years’ experience working across various NHS digital system and EPR implementations and is a graduate of cohort three of the NHS Digital Academy.

Francesca Owen

programme director, Surrey & Borders Partnership Trust

Jo Hillier

chief clinical information officer, Sussex Partnership Trust

Jo Hillier is the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) for Sussex Partnership. Sussex Partnership is a large mental health and learning disabilities Trust in the South-East of England. Jo is an Occupational Therapist and Psychological Therapist with twenty-five years of clinical experience in physical and mental health in the UK and New Zealand.

Jo is committed to ensuring that the benefits and opportunities of digital technologies are a reality within the delivery of mental health and are leveraged to have an important role in improving the mental health of the population and the delivery of health and care services.

Jo is passionate about inclusive digital leadership and actively encourages clinicians and operational colleagues from all disciplines to be a part of digital transformation. Jo is a graduate of cohort four of the NHS Digital Academy.