WellSky offers digital support to NHS Nightingale sites

WellSky International Ltd is helping to digitally support the running of the NHS nightingale sites across England.

The medicine management solutions company has contacted its customers who are actively involved in the creation of field hospitals across the UK.

NHS England is planning to build Nightingale sites in Bristol and Harrogate in addition to those already in development in London, Manchester and Birmingham. The hospitals will provide hundreds of extra beds if local services need them during the peak of coronavirus.

WellSky has offered additional services and support for these sites which includes software license extensions from WellSky and its partners to help facilitate the rapid service provision needed.

WellSky assisted the team at Barts Health NHS Trust to help set up the pharmacy services at NHS Nightingale at the Excel Exhibition Centre in London. Cerner is supplying its electronic patient record (EPR) software to the temporary ICU hospital.

Naheed Phul, deputy chief pharmacist at Barts said, “The Nightingale Hospital Pharmacy team are grateful for the support that WellSky provided to set up WellSky Pharmacy on the Barts Health NHS Trust system.

“Within a week we implemented WellSky Pharmacy on site, a project that usually takes weeks, if not months. We are now able to order stock to The Nightingale Hospital directly. This is vital given that we are expecting almost 4,000 patients.”

WellSky has approached its existing customers where they are involved in other facilities offering technical assistance to facilitate the deployment of medicines management services to the NHS at this time of exceptional demand.

As well as reaching out to a number of trusts and health boards, WellSky has been working with its partners.

The InterSystems Iris for Health data platform is an integral part of the overall WellSky Pharmacy solution. For example, InterSystems is supporting the extension of its services by waiving additional license fees.

Similar support has been offered by First Databank (FDB), providers of the clinical decision support functionality of the WellSky EPMA system, to enable free license extension at hospitals that wish to implement EPMA at these new facilities.

Robert Tysall-Blay, CEO, WellSky International said: “WellSky, and our partners InterSystems and FDB are pleased to support NHS Pharmacists and all healthcare staff working at the front line of the NHS in delivering essential medicines management services safely and efficiently during these unprecedented time.”