Southern Health has contracted CLEO Systems to implement CLEO SOLO EPS, after a successful tender process. Following an initial proof of concept - the trust is live with CLEO SOLO EPS within a number of teams including an Urgent Treatment Centre, Older Peoples Mental Health, Community Perinatal, Urgent Community Response, Frailty and the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.
The Trust awarded the contract to implement CLEO SOLO EPS in order to move towards digital prescribing and away from prescribers using handwritten FP10 prescriptions for outpatient prescribing. This was causing lengthy administrative processes around the ordering, use and security of FP10 pads, while reporting on medications prescribed and associated cost was often routinely behind schedule. The contract will deliver many benefits, including supporting remote prescribing processes, improving the patient experience, increasing clinical efficiency and reducing paper processing.
Carol Ingham, Digital Transformation Programme Manager Technology Programme Delivery, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust says: ‘We wanted to implement an electronic prescribing system to support the prescribing process and ensure accurate, safe prescribing and dispensing. We’re really looking forward to delivering benefits directly to our patients, enhancing patient safety and improving patient experience and our staff, improving health and wellbeing by removing cumbersome paper processes.’
Emma Dew, Sales and Marketing Director at CLEO Systems, said: ‘We are really excited about this deployment, after such a successful pilot. Benefits are already being recognised across the settings where CLEO SOLO EPS is being used.’
Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts providing mental health, physical health, learning disabilities services, community hospitals and specialist inpatient units for a population of 1.3 million people. CLEO Systems’ digital solutions support urgent, primary and community care providers to deliver healthcare services in a variety of out-of-hospital settings across the South, East and North of England.
The contract will be for an initial 24-month term with three optional 12-month extensions.