RiO is a Major Success for BT and NHS London

Patients and clinicians across the capital are benefiting from BT's rapid deployment of CSE Servelec's care record system, RiO.  The deployments, which are part of the NHS London Programme for IT, commenced in March 2006 and since then RiO has been rolled-out to a number of PCTs and mental health trusts.  The system provides each London trust with a single electronic clinical and administrative record.

Barnet Primary Care Trust was the first trust to go live with the system introducing electronic care records in a number of their community services.  

The system will eventually link up with the NHS Care Records Service (NHS CRS), which will provide electronic care records for everyone in England. This means that, over time, health records will be kept on computers which can be securely linked together, so the information NHS staff need in order to provide the best possible treatment will be available to them in emergencies.

RiO is a single product which has been configured by CSE Servelec, NHS London and BT to support the specific needs of the mental health and community trusts in London with the involvement of over 700 clinicians from a variety of clinical specialties. 

The community configuration, designed by clinical groups organised through NHS London, delivers a broad range of clinical and administrative tools to support community professionals across all services.  These include dietetics and nutrition, podiatry, district nursing, community beds, intermediate care, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language, school nursing and health visiting.   children's services within the PCTs also use RiO for all aspects of pre-school and school health surveillance including immunisations, new born screening and health reviews. 

April 2006