Digitising the frontline in the South West

Implementing an EPR at Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

In July 2022 Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s Northern services went live with their new electronic patient record, the same system that went live across their Eastern services (formerly RD&E) in 2020. 

In the first month of use, the Northern services used the EPR to: 

• register 105 baby births.
• record 12,333 visits to patients’ homes.
• admit 2,881 patients to hospital.
• discharge 2,931 patients from hospital.
• book 28,888 outpatient appointments.

The EPR is helping the Trust offer patients of their Northern and Eastern services more visibility and control of much of their care, and the Trust currently has around 50,000 patients who have used the MY CARE app on their phones, tablets or PCs.