Trust Commended for Innovative Use of EPR

RiO users, the Somerset Partnership NHS & Social Care Trust, have recently had an extremely positive Healthcare Commission Clinical Governance Review, achieving an assessment of 3 on a 4 point scale in the Use of Information domain. The Trust have been commended on their innovative use of the electronic patient record, their approach being termed "innovative and pioneering".

"What did we find impressive at Somerset Partnership NHS and Social Care Trust?
The trust is one of the first in the country to have developed an electronic patient record (EPR) which supports performance monitoring, clinical governance and healthcare delivery. This is exemplary practice as the EPR is being used as a basis for improving standards and ensuring that care is centred around service users' needs...the investment in this technology is visionary and pioneering." Somerset Partnership NHS and Social Care Trust Clinical Governance Review, Healthcare Commission, March 2005

Somerset Partnership NHS & Social Care Trust implemented CSE Servelec’s RiO in 2002 and it is now the principle client record for the Trust.