Mid Yorks deploys Ascribe PAS

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is live with its CaMIS patient administration system from Ascribe.

The trust, which previously used the legacy Barwick PAS, also owned by Ascribe, is using the system across all three hospital sites.

James Rawlinson, Mid Yorkshire’s associate director of IT services said the go-live had gone “incredibly well”.

“A team of Ascribe floor walkers, including development teams, supplemented the trust’s own staff to provide additional support over the course of the week,” he said.

Mid Yorkshire, like most trusts in the North, Midlands and East of England, was waiting to take CSC’s Lorenzo under the National Programme for IT.

However, once it became clear that NPfIT was not going to deliver, it began to explore the market before deciding to go with Ascribe.

Mid Yorkshire has been struggling financially during the last few years and wanted a cost effective, low-risk solution.

“We needed a system that was well-proven, cost effective and supported our vision of systems optimisation and integration,” said Rawlinson.

Mid Yorkshire had been using its old PAS for around 20 years. The cutover from the Barwick system to the CaMIS PAS began with the migration of 3.5m rows of data.

The data migration was completed and the system handed back to the trust for acceptance testing over the weekend before go-live in late September.

During the first week following deployment, the trust completed 15,000 outpatient transactions, such as referrals, bookings and attendances and 5,500 admissions, discharges and transfers.

The trust already uses Ascribe’s systems in its emergency department, medical hardware tracking, and an endoscopy suite.

The CaMIS PAS is delivered within Ascribe’s Health Application Platform.