Medical & Dental

Resus status will be entered or verified at point of entry and will be visible in a prominent place when the patient is selected or on the patient care status boards. Respect forms remain on paper.

The chart is the hub for all information about a patient, covering the current visit and previous ones. Imagine it as being the replacement for the ‘brown notes’, the patient notes you have and use on the ward currently. View the EPR demonstrations on this website for more information.

It's the main working screen for clinicians, described as the “doctor’s side” of MEDITECH. It holds the rounds list with key patient information at a glance: location, length of stay, special indicators, resuscitation status, current and visit problems, and the latest NEWS (early warning) scores. View the EPR demonstrations, such as an overview of the EPR system, on this website for more information.

The pre-built clinical documentation is fixed and cannot be changed or edited. However, there will be relevant mechanisms for customising text tailored to specific clinician groups, and relevant groups will have targeted training to use that custom function.
Subject matter experts from all three trusts were fully involved in the design of these documents, so it is fully expected that they are fit for purpose.

Yes, where those referral processes are already internal. Internal referrals are the only referral mechanism that is changing; they will move entirely to our MEDITECH EPR and come off ICE.
External referral processes will remain on the electronic referral service, so GPs and community reams referring in to our Group will do what they always did. Any referrals we make to an external provider will continue to be made in the mechanism they always have been. Take a look at 'The inpatient referral board in the EPR' demonstration on this website for more information.

Some roles may see changes where their work connects with clinical services, patient areas or information shared through existing processes. The EPR change team are working with staff to help them understand how the EPR will impact their work and prepare for any change.

When we move to the EPR, medication records will be brought into the new system so staff have accurate and up-to-date information about a patient’s medicines. Pharmacy and clinical teams will help plan and test this process before go-live to make sure the transition is safe and accurate.

Yes. Patients should only need to tell their health story once and it will be recorded in the EPR, along with care and treatment information – available to all those with a legitimate need to see it. This saves them having to keep telling different staff about their health and symptoms.

Their electronic record moves with them across wherever they are within all sites of our three acute hospitals. Their care team in each site will be able to see their latest information immediately.

Everyone involved in a patient’s care will be working from the same live patient record, making it easier to see the latest observations, assessments, care plans, medications, test results and outstanding actions.

No. NWEPR is a tool to support decision-making, not make decisions for you.

NWEPR brings together up-to-date clinical information in one place and includes safety features such as alerts for allergies, adverse drug reactions, deterioration and other patient risks, supporting decision making.