Southern Health deploys mobile capability for community nurses in 6 days

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a mobile capability for its community nurses in six days, in order to help tackle the challenges presented by Covid-19.

Servelec was selected to help roll out the solution to Physical Health Community Nursing services.

Created in partnership with, Totalmobile, Rio Mobilise will be used by up to 500 community nurses to securely access and capture information.

Using the app, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust can access Rio (Servelec’s EPR system) anywhere, recording updates in real-time. As a result, nurses do not have to return to base as often.

The solution is already live and was deployed in six days, which allowed the trust to help tackle the challenges presented by Covid-19.

Sharon Hargreaves, CCIO at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, says: “With the increase in demand the trust now faces in light of the current Covid-19 situation it was essential that we invested in technology that helped our teams work to the highest level both now and into the future.

“With the help of Servelec and Totalmobile we’ve been able to rapidly deploy the Rio Mobilise solution to create a new way of working that will support the effective delivery of services for our community nursing team.”

The agreement is the latest secured by Servelec, in partnership with Totalmobile, which includes recent contracts with Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Essex County Council to implement mobile workforce management across their respective health and social care services. This is on top of rolling out a set of mobile workforce management and scheduling services for social care teams at Cambridgeshire County Council.

Steve Wightman, healthcare managing director at Servelec, said the company was glad to work with the trust and “rapidly” create a solution which is “vital” for key workers.

While Charles Knight, sales director at Totalmobile, said the “health and care system in the UK is currently under a great deal of pressure due to the demand that is being presented by the Covid-19 situation”, adding that “Totalmobile and Servelec are offering their full support to all NHS Trusts to help them continue to deal with this demand”.