The Isle of Wight NHS Trust has welcomed the confirmation of £21.5million of additional funding to modernise digital technology, IT infrastructure and clinical systems.
£12.5million of the capital funding forms part of the Investing in Our Future programme (IOF) to improve NHS buildings and IT and will support improvements happening across the Trust.
Isle of Wight NHS Trust bid successfully for a further £9million to improve its clinical systems.
The investment will enhance the use of technology to ensure the Trust can provide a safe and sustainable services that benefit the community and improves staff experiences too.
Improvements to digital infrastructure will include replacing the current network to make way for a faster and more reliable WiFi, making it easier to use clinical technology and to communicate.
The funding will allow the local NHS to introduce a new electronic document management system (EDMS) which means all patient records will be digital and legacy records scanned into the new system. This means clinicians and patients will be able to access information much more quickly and efficiently.
It will allow investment in the Trust’s data warehouse to improve the quality of the data, making it quicker to retrieve, more easily managed, and provide greater insight and more informed decision-making.
The funding will also enhance the delivery of critical care by allowing the NHS Trust to invest in a digital solution to enable faster and safer sharing of data internally, and with partner organisations, including Portsmouth University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Isle of Wight NHS Trust will also introduce the same core clinical system that Mountbatten and GP colleagues use to share electronic care records. SystmOne will enable seamless data sharing to ensure that clinical staff across the Trust have access to the right information at the right time. Reducing the number of systems and repeated data entry tasks will give back time to clinicians that can be better spent with patients.
Alongside the introduction of a single system, the Isle of Wight NHS Trust will offer the use of Airmid, an innovative patient-facing app, that will allow access to your medical records to support you in making informed decisions about your personal health.
Dr Nikki Turner, Director of Strategy, Partnership and Digital, has said:
“This major investment is a game changer for the Island’s NHS and a major boost to our digital transformation journey.
“Investing in our IT infrastructure and clinical systems will ensure we can provide a safe and sustainable digital service that will improve patient experience and revolutionise the way our staff work.
“We look forward to sharing further benefits of our digital transformation programme over the coming months.”
Rebecca Lester, Chief Digital Information Officer, said:
“This is truly a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the Isle of Wight NHS Trust to modernise its digital infrastructure and services for the benefit of citizens of the Island, and to provide modern digital tools which enable our staff to provide the best care possible to those using our services.”
Is it just another baroness cashing in on a contract ? Another how we are helping people advert when it veils a nepotism contract. Millions of pounds for a certain clique . And you will find that UK law is pathetic in that if the software is rubbish, you can’t get your money back.
So they pay loads of money that will make “you” the patient do more and “them” less. Let’s just wait and see how much faster this “new” system will be. But then again if it gets rid of some the the useless managers who do naff all when they are supposed to be “working” then all good to it.
Legacy records will be scanned into the new system … When I asked for a copy of my records (going back over 40yrs) I was given a cd containing the last 4 years, when I asked where the rest were I was told they had been shredded!
Somewhere they will have your “Lloyd George” records – paper records, but have probably “mislaid” them. It is a mystery as to why in 2023 there is not a better digital system. It is my experience that most clinicians haven’t a clue about anyone’s medical history, and in hospital you are repeatedly asked the same questions ad nauseum.
I was assured by the records dept that as I hadnt seen a consultant for 6yrs all previous records had been destroyed, this was after charging me 50 quid for what turned out to be worthless. I agree its a mystery especially considering the Inland Revenue can tell if I underpaid them in 1971
The NHS has streadfastly opposed all attempts to digitise and modernise systems. Billions have been wasted trying to get the NHS to digitise and link records. The problem is due to medics who can barely use email thinking that “they will be replaced by computers”. If only! Our medical service is so far behind others around the world that have embraced technology. Effective computer systems and digitised, interlinked records save lives and facilitate the provision of preventative care.
You need to chase that up. I got all of my records in digital form dating back to the 60’s. All on my online account at the doctors. They can not scan stuff if a previous hospital destroying the records. They did not do the destruction of your records, stop implying that they did.
All governments of all colours want to privatize the NHS. Look at the US, we do not want what they have.
As I was treated at Ryde County & St Marys from the age of 6 to the present day I’d love to know which other hospital did it
Fine, but just be very aware of what happened with the last local digital healthcare masterpiece.
Wouldn’t the money be better spent on getting NHS Dentists and Gp’s that want to see patients in person?
How do you think that would work? Finite pool of GPs and dentists who don’t want to work more than their current hours Mon-Fri. They aren’t going to work weekends or evenings.
The problem is caused by a failure to train sufficient medics to cover needs. The medical profession likes to limit numbers trained in order to keep salaries high. Simple supply and demand. Just make a lot more spaces available to train more medical doctors. Twice as many medical doctors per capita in Spain on half the money and health care is far better.
Well it will help out towards building a few more offices to put a few more ‘department managers’ in!
The digital infrastructure was upgraded in the last 20 years, and some staff were struggling on how to use it then. Sometimes the old ways are the best ways, change for change sake is not always productive. They would be better off meeting the pay demands of the nursing staff. At that cost they would be better off building another hospital to take the so called bed blockers.
What happens when Armageddon occurs, which it could with Putin – and no WiFi? Sometimes paper records are the best they have worked for the past and more so since 1948.
You don’t need to worry about Armageddon because you will be dead obviously!
£21.5 million. Let’s hope it gets spent in the correct places! Not repairing the Non Floating Bridge on its many breakdowns!
This Council can waste money like nobody’s business.
This has nothing to do with the Council.
But after spending £21.5M and perhaps the extra £9M, will IW NHS be able to communicate with mainland NHS (QA, Southampton)?
And SystmOnline is pretty useless at best, not least because local GPs don’t want you prying into their past mistakes.
So nhs say that they are under funded yet they are getting the go ahead for a £21.5 million pounds it infrastructure and clinical systems and technology and the nurses and ambulance staff go strike to get a pay rise bloody cheek