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Improving outpatient communications with standardised letters – how Epro is doing this

In our lifetimes, we encounter many different healthcare settings at different points in time. A typical example of this is a consultation with a GP leading to a hospital referral for more specialised care, followed by continuing treatment at home or in the community. The efficacy of this pathway with successful clinical outcomes strongly depends Continue Reading

Jonathan Elliott, Managing Director of Epro gives his thoughts on the Lord Darzi report and the current challenges facing the NHS.

As Lord Darzi’s report highlighted, the number of people waiting more than a year for hospital treatment has almost doubled from about four million to almost eight million between August 2007 and June 2024. The consequences of elongated wait times on population health are profound, and reducing this is key. … Continue Reading

Cyber Essentials Plus

🎉 Epro are pleased to announce that we have been recertified for Cyber Essentials Plus! 🎉… Continue Reading

Why focusing on benefit realisation is key to NHS digitisation

In the Spring Budget, the government announced that there would be a £3.4 billion injection into NHS digitisation – effectively doubling the national investment in order to “modernise NHS IT systems so they are as good as the best in the world”. Whilst a laudable aim, the announcement has been met with cautious optimism by Continue Reading

Maximising Clinical Productivity in the NHS

With the NHS facing many challenges in a post-COVID world, the urgency to address the productivity gap has never been more important. This is highlighted by recent data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which revealed a concerning trend: productivity in the public sector, dominated by education and healthcare, had deteriorated between the third Continue Reading

Technology must enhance, not detract from, clinicians’ interactions with patients

The NHS needs to prioritise the delivery of agile, intuitive systems that enable clinicians to focus on patients, not technology, writes Epro’s Chandu Wickramarachchi Technology investment is a vital component in the evolution of the NHS but having achieved the core objective of joined-up patient records, it is now essential to take a different approach Continue Reading

Epro’s Managing Director Jonathan Elliott takes a look back at 2023

At the beginning of the year, NHS England set three main priorities for 2023/24. The first was to recover core services and productivity. The second to make progress in delivering the key ambitions of the NHS’s Long Term Plan. And finally, to continue transforming the NHS for the future. I speak on behalf of us Continue Reading

Epro Achieves ISO 9001 Certification

Certification reaffirms Epro’s commitment to Quality Assurance November 2023: The Epro team is delighted to be able to share the exciting news that, as of the beginning of November 2023, we have been awarded the ISO 9001 quality assurance accreditation, the internationally recognised standard for Quality Management Systems (QMS). Following an intensive nine-month process, during Continue Reading

Winscribe End-of-Life

At the end of June 2024, Nuance’s on-premise Winscribe dictation platform reaches end-of- life, marking the end of support and any further upgrades for the software. As we know, migrating seamlessly to any new technology solution can take time and requires careful planning; particularly so when clinical productivity and potential patient safety is involved. And, Continue Reading

Epro at ConfedExpo23

The Epro team was thrilled to attend the NHS ConfedExpo 2023 this month in Manchester, one of the most significant healthcare conferences in the UK that sees health and care leaders and their teams unite, network and share insights at a time of transformation and recovery. Taking place across the 14th and 15th June at Continue Reading