The EPR team are currently out and about, visiting teams and departments across the Trust to ensure that everyone knows the benefits that EPR will bring for staff and patients, and also the changes they can expect when we go live in 2016.
 

EPR will bring many benefits for our patients, but if it doesn’t improve the working life of hard working nurses, then we’re missing a trick! We asked six health care workers, how they thought it would help to make a busy shift that little bit easier. Here’s what they said….
 

Patient records all in one place: “With all of a patient’s records in EPR, there’ll be no more running around trying to find paperwork.”
Louise Croxall, Emergency Department Nurse


Bed management: “We’ll know which patient is in which bed and which beds are vacant”
Emily Fausan, Emergency Department Nurse


No more filing: “Wave goodbye to tatty bits of paper and bursting folders, that you can't fit in the filing cabinet!”
Nickie Jones, Healthcare Assistant 


No chasing TTOs: “With drug charts on EPR there will be no need for trips to pharmacy to get patients their take-home medications.  The only downside is we’ll miss the nurses paying us a visit!”
Penny Daynes, Pharmacist
 

Less time on paperwork and more time for patients: “Lots of standard assessments will have basic information already filled in, by taking details from elsewhere – this is going to save lots of time”
Dali Kaur, EPR Analyst 


Notes will be easier to understand: “No more trying to decipher the handwriting of our medical colleagues! “
Maureen Gaunt, Medical Secretary.
 

If you would like a member of the team to come an visit your team, drop us a line at: epr-enquiries@this.nhs.uk. We’re happy to join an existing meeting or help to organise a one-off EPR briefing.