Newly-Merged Sussex Trust Partners with System C to Join Up Care

System CThe new University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with System C to join up care across multiple hospital sites with the use of a care coordination platform.

The new Trust is formed from the merger of Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust. It runs five main hospital sites with 1,767 beds and around 20,000 staff, caring for 1.8 million people in Sussex. 

In a dynamic move to fast-track joined-up care as a new organisation, the Trust is rolling out System C's care collaboration software - CareFlow Connect. This will create networks which will allow secure patient-identified communications to take place, between care teams, across all five hospital sites.

Work on the full integration of Trust patient management and electronic record systems has already started and is due to complete towards the end of 2022.

"We are off to a great start with our digital strategy and plans for integrating care for patients across Sussex by giving clinicians the tools to support the complex patient flows between our hospitals," said Rob Haigh, medical director at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. "The implementation has started, and we are working towards an initial go-live by the autumn."

The contract was awarded using NHSX’s new clinical communications framework. This is a procurement framework setup for clinicians to access a wide range of communication tools from 24 suppliers under one agreement to save valuable time and money in the procurement process.

Clinicians in Sussex will use the system to manage paperless referral and team-to-team conversations between different sites so patients can be referred to any hospital within the Trust. CareFlow will facilitate electronic referrals in patient context that are fast, trackable and standardised using a structured situation, background, assessment and recommendation (SBAR) format.

Two of the hospital sites that originally formed the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust have used System C’s patient administration system and theatre solution since 2018. These sites will also adopt further care coordination functionality such as electronic handovers, shared patient lists, clinical tagging and task management for faster and safer care collaboration for clinical teams.

System C recently announced a further contract signing with Western Sussex Hospitals for a new strategic PAS/EPR and theatres system to adopt a single electronic patient record solution across University Hospitals Sussex.

Markus Bolton, joint chief executive of System C commented: “University Hospitals Sussex has done well to move quickly of the starting blocks using the clinical communications framework to execute their integration plans.

"I wish University Hospitals Sussex every success as a new organisation and we are looking forward to supporting the Trust to unite their digital infrastructures and further improve hospital services for patients."

About System C

System C is the UK's leading health and social care software supplier. Its products include the CareFlow (formerly Medway) electronic patient record and associated products, mobile clinical support solutions, CarePlus Child Health and the Liquidlogic range of social care software.

System C is part of the System C & Graphnet Care Alliance, a strategic alliance offering IT solutions that allow for the integration of health and social care services across whole care communities and STP areas.

Our solutions use leading-edge technologies - including mobile, wearables, instant messaging and machine learning - to radically redesign services and the way clinicians and patients interact together.

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