
Plans to deliver a new electronic prescribing system in all Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTM UHB) hospitals have taken a big step forward, with the announcement that it has selected Nervecentre as its technology supplier.
Nervecentre’s EPMA system will replace paper-based processes, helping to provide clinicians with more time to deliver safer and more efficient care to patients.
It will streamline prescribing by replacing the paper drug chart at the end of a patient’s bed with a new digital system. This will reduce the risk of medication errors, help ensure information is accurate, up-to-date, and readily available to support clinical decision-making, and ultimately improve patient care.
Nervecentre’s EPMA system will be rolled out to hospitals in Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Bridgend, benefitting the 450,000 population.
CTM UHB is the second health board in Wales to select Nervecentre as its preferred EPMA supplier following a rigorous and clinically led tender process. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has also partnered with Nervecentre.
The introduction of EPMA is a key part of the national Digital Medicines programme, led by Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) to make the prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines everywhere in Wales easier, safer and more efficient for patients and clinicians.
Dom Hurford, Executive Medical Director at CTM UHB
Lesley Jones, DHCW Programme Oversight Chair for EPMA
Nervecentre’s innovative cloud-based platform provides a foundation for health boards to extend their future transformational potential beyond EPMA. Adding more of Nervecentre’s broad EPR capabilities within a single integrated system combines best-of-breed flexibility with the better experience for clinicians and their patients that comes from having everything together in one place.
Paul Volkaerts, CEO of Nervecentre
The introduction of EPMA is supported and funded by Welsh Government and is part of a digital transformation programme to improve care across NHS Wales.
Andrew Evans, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for Wales