York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust will go live with an electronic patient record (EPR) system supplied by Nervecentre in 2026.
Nervecentre was confirmed as the preferred bidder for the EPR contract last year after scoring the highest in a joint tender process, but no date was initially announced for the rollout.
A trust board paper, published in October 2025, has confirmed that the EPR go live is expected to commence on 27 February 2026.
A spokesperson for York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust told Digital Health News: “The trust continues to make good progress with the implementation of our new Nervecentre EPR system.
“The design is clinically led, with support from our digital teams to configure the system in a way that enhances patient safety and improves the efficiency of clinical pathways.
“Work is underway to customise key elements to ensure the system meets the needs of clinicians ahead of the planned go-live in 2026.”
According to the board paper, the first tranche of the EPR rollout will include “observations, clinical documentation for inpatients (known as the Patient Safety Bundle and Inpatient Paperless modules within Nervecentre), Urgent and Emergency Care, Electronic Prescribing and Medicine Administration, Bed Management and read-only diagnostic results”.
User acceptance testing began on 7 October 2025 with members of the clinical digital team, and will be widened to involve more users from next month, the paper states.
Helen Grantham, non-executive director at York and Scarborough, queried in the board meeting how the cultural changes needed to ensure successful implementation of the new EPR were being managed.
James Hawkins, chief digital and information officer at the trust, confirmed that “the digital team is collaborating with clinical teams to design processes which would be consistent across the trust’s different sites”.
He added that “a team of clinicians have been seconded to the project” who will “act as Nervecentre EPR champions in addition to advising on implementation”.
The board paper highlights that ‘tranche 2’ of the EPR programme, which is focused on order communications, will go live on 30 June 2026, and ‘tranche 3’ (Patient Administration System, Outpatient documentation, Theatres, Endoscopy and eConsent) will be implemented on 30 October 2026.
Nervecentre has established a strong presence in the Midlands, with Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust selecting the firm as their preferred EPR supplier.
Other organisations in the region to have gone live with Nervecentre’s EPR include University Hospitals of Derby and Burton Foundation Trust, Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation Trust, Northampton General Hospital and East Sussex Healthcare.
Outside of the Midlands, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust also selected Nervecentre as its preferred supplier, but has not yet announced a go-live date.
A source told Digital Health News that Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, one of the last remaining acute trusts without an EPR under NHSE’s Frontline Digitisation programme, is also expected to announce Nervecentre as its preferred EPR bidder. The trust declined to comment.
