CALDERDALE AND HUDDERSFIELD NHS
Mandy Griffin and Graham Walsh tell us how the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust is leading the way in terms of digital maturity
The Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust , situated in West Yorkshire in the north of England , aims to be the most digitally mature NHS trust in the UK . Mandy Griffin , who is the Managing Director for Digital Health , says that they are definitely on their way to achieving this .
A good example is their Electronic Patient Record ( EPR ). When Griffin became managing Director in 2015 she was handed the board approved business case . It took two years to develop the solution , plan the deployment and engage with staff across the trust before they were ready to adopt to a whole new way of working . " Usually , the technology will work as it is intended , but you need to bring the people that are going to be using it along with you ", Griffin explains . We brought all the doctors , nurses and non-clinicians into the fold , so they could really understand how the EPR would change the way they work ."
In some cases , this meant explaining the key benefits to people who might be resistant to change , but while tough , Griffin explains the project has been a big success . " It was branded one of the biggest deployments in Europe as far as a Cerner Millennium product is concerned . Now people often come to us to ask us to share our experiences because they want to do the same thing . It ' s almost become a blueprint for how you should deploy an EPR ," she says . cht . nhs . uk 5