What is Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust?
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust was formed on 1 October 2013. The Trust is responsible for services at Lewisham Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Greenwich, as well as a range of NHS community services in Lewisham and some services at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup.
What happened to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Lewisham?
The trust was formed by the acquisition of the acquisition of Queen Elizabeth Hospital by Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust upon the dissolution of South London Healthcare NHS Trust. Despite extensive local opposition and legal challenges in Lewisham, the merger was approved by Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt on 26 September 2013.
When was the Lewisham health and social care merger approved?
Despite extensive local opposition and legal challenges in Lewisham, the merger was approved by Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt on 26 September 2013.
How do I access the clinical portal?
The Clinical Portal is hosted on our Extranet and a username and password are needed to access content. Here you can find your patient's test results and clinical records, along with key clinical and administrative documentation and COPD passports.
What is the NHS in Greenwich?
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is responsible for hospital services at Lewisham Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Greenwich. The Trust also runs a range of NHS community services in Lewisham.
What is the NHS number for A&E?
Planning to attend A&E? Please call NHS 111 first
Why did Lewisham and Greenwich choose Citrix?
Lewisham and Greenwich chose Citrix Workspace and Citrix Cloud services delivered over Microsoft Azure to enable a more agile approach to its community services. It selected Platinum Citrix Solution Advisor Cetus Solutions to help design and deploy the solution.
Why is it important to deliver healthcare at the right time?
Delivering healthcare at the right place and time is essential for better patient outcomes. Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust’s smart use of technology makes it possible to deliver care at the point of need, even during a pandemic lockdown.
When will Viapath be released?
The partnership has temporarily retained the name of today’s service provider, Viapath, until a new brand is launched in Spring 2022.
What is the transfer of Synlab?
The transfer is part of a wider programme to transform pathology services across the region, under a partnership involving SYNLAB UK & Ireland with Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts.
What is Lewisham and Greenwich NHS?
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is an NHS trust which was formed on 1 October 2013 and is responsible for running two acute hospitals, Queen Elizabeth Hospital and University Hospital Lewisham, in addition to community health services in Lewisham.
What is the choir of Lewisham and Greenwich?
The Trust's choir, the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir , appeared on Gareth Malone 's BBC Two competition show The Choir: Sing While You Work in 2013, where they finished second. They reached Christmas singles chart number one in 2015 with their charity record " A Bridge over You ", beating Justin Bieber's top-selling "Love Yourself in the process. In 2020, they recorded a version of Bieber's "Holy", with the two former rivals combining to challenge for the Christmas number one spot. However, when the record was released on 18 December 2020 it still had a credit for Chance the Rapper, like the original version, which first entered the UK chart on 25 September 2020. As the new record was seen as just a remix, "Holy" ended up at Number 41 in the Christmas chart with 17,594 sales, after being classed as per the original release with no additional credit for the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir.
When did Lewisham NHS merge with South London?
Despite extensive local opposition and legal challenges in Lewisham, the merger was approved by Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt on 26 September 2013.
When did the General Medical Council put the trust on an enhanced monitoring list?
The General Medical Council put the trust on an enhanced monitoring list in February 2017 after complaints from junior doctors about "clinical supervision, serious incident reporting, trust leadership, rotas and rota management, workload, educational supervision, pastoral support and access to educational opportunities".
Is Lewisham Hospital still operating?
Both hospitals continue to operate emergency departments, acute medicine services and maternity units following the High Court decision which ruled that the plan to close services at Lewisham Hospital was unlawful, a judgement which was subsequently upheld in the Court of Appeal.
What does HealtheIntent do?
Dr Gostling, whose practice was also involved in the trial, notes that “ HealtheIntent brings data together and allows us to collect a huge richness of data that wouldn't otherwise be available to individual organisations... That allows us to see a whole person, not just a set of biometric parameters.”
What is population health management?
Proactively knowing the identity of your patients, being able to engage with them and supporting them as they manage their condition are the key principles of population health management. By being able to get on the front foot to counter diabetes, health and care professionals will potentially be able to reduce the risk of their patients developing the complications associated with it.
Is Cerner and Lewisham able to detect Type 2 diabetes?
Being able to detect Type 2 diabetes earlier is the first of its type for Cerner and Lewisham, and as with all leading-edge technology, it will only be improved in the future, and expand its reach, thus becoming even more powerful as more health and care providers are included in the search for multiple HbA1c flags.
The Challenge
The Trust were having to fund and resource two separate integration platforms and supporting teams – InterSystems Ensemble and Rhapsody, whilst rolling out its Cerner EPR system to both sites. Most of the hospitals key administrative and clinical processes had to be protected and enabled including:
The Solution
Integrella won the competitive tender on the basis of our wealth of experience in performing this type of transition and on our track record in Ensemble solution delivery and support. It took just under a year to complete the consolidated merge of all existing application interfaces over to the new platform.
About Integrella
Integrella is a specialist integration services company supplying round-the-clock support to some of the largest NHS Trusts. We have extensive experience working in the UK Healthcare sector, as well as in the Public Sector, Financial Services, Retail and Utilities sectors.
