Electronic patient records to continue to improve hospital care say Worcestershire Acute NHS Trust
The system is soon to be in use across the A&E departments in the Worcester Royal and the Alexandra Hospital
Last updated 3rd Nov 2024
Worcestershire Acute NHS Trust say the roll out of the electronic patient records will help them to continue to improve patient care.
The trust have announced the system has now been launched in the same day emergency care units this week, and will soon be in the A&E departments in the Worcester Royal and the Alexandra Hospital.
Marc Tarrant from the Alexander Hospital in Redditch has been involved in the system roll out across the county and says it will help them to create more timely diagnosis and treatment for hospital patients.
"One of the big advantages is not having those pieces of paper that are following a patient round the department, we don't have to go searching for pieces of paper.
"They're actually all in one place, which is on the system, and if we log on to any computer system, we can all have access to that information.
"Every time any of us as clinicians go into one of those patient records, it holds our name, and the date and time that we altered those records, so from an audit point of view, it's fantastic.
"We've launched it into the minor injury units, all five of them in the Worcestershire community, and then we will roll it out to the A&E ones soon."