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Two teams at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB) have received national recognition for their innovation and approach to implementing improvements which have directly impact our patients and colleagues.

Both of the projects have been nominated in the Championing Continuous Improvement category of the Smarter Working Live Awards - part of their annual conference being held on Thursday 21 November at the Vox Conference Centre in Birmingham - with the work to embed continuous learning and improvement through the deployment of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), and the digitising of Essential Safety Guides (now known as eGuides) for nurses and healthcare support workers (HSCWs).

A member of our Digital Services team has shed light onto how everyone across the Trust can help to save money in their areas to help the organisation in achieving one of our key annual priorities for 2024 / 25. George Kythreotis, End User Support Team Leader based at Royal Derby Hospital, has explained how he has made two simple, but highly effective changes, in his area which are already saved more than £3,500 since their introduction earlier this year. 

In an era of rapid technological advancement, colleagues at UHDB are leading the charge in harnessing the power of data science, intelligent automation, and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive positive change to patients and communities across Derbyshire and Staffordshire.

Across the world, AI and intelligent automation is already used in many fields and has developed and grown considerably in recent years. AI refers to computer systems that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as learning, problem-solving and decision-making. Intelligent automation combines AI with automation technologies to streamline processes and allow this technology to carry out tasks with minimal human intervention.

The Trust is pleased to share that Debbie Loke has been appointed as its new Executive Chief Digital Information Officer (CDIO).

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton and Chesterfield Royal Hospital have confirmed their future electronic patient record system (EPR) will be provided by Nervecentre, after signing a joint contract last week.

Colleagues who have helped teams across the Trust to identify and streamline more than 1,000 paper-based patient records and forms and begin to transfer them to a digital format have been recognised for helping to improve patient safety. The Clinical Digital team organised and lead the Paper2Pixels events across the Trust in December 2023 and January 2024, which allowed teams to hand in their paper forms to identify how processes could be made safer and more efficient.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust (UHDB) and Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (CRH) are pleased to announce the identification of a preferred supplier for a new joint Electronic Patient Record system; Nervecentre.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton are pleased to share that Dr Nitin Kolhe, Consultant Nephrologist at UHDB and Deputy Divisional Medical Director for Medicine, has been appointed Deputy Medical Director for Digital and Data, and Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO), which will start on 1 September 2023.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton has appointed its first Chief Digital Information Officer, which will support the further integration of the Trust’s clinical digital systems.

A new digital Facilities Management App has benefited UHDB FM staff across Derbyshire and Staffordshire by making important information relating to their work available to them at their fingertips.

The app, which launched at the end of 2021, for all facilities and estates staff, across all five sites, including our partners in ISS, Skanska, STERIS and Synergy.