Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust is undertaking further work to assess the potential costs of implementing the Epic electronic patient record, after making a £19 million funding bid to NHS England’s technology fund.

Three commissioning support units in the South have become the latest CSUs to announce plans for a merger.

NHS England is still unable to say when the details of the trusts that won money from the second round of the technology fund will be released, so EHI is running a survey to determine the impact of the delay.

NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has called for the creation of a digital urgent care ‘front door’ for the health service, as the performance of A&E has become an early general election issue.

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust has signed a contract with TPP for its e-prescribing and e-discharge systems, with plans to roll it out by the end of the year.

Plymouth Community Healthcare is set to finish implementing TPP’s SystmOne in June, with a mental health e-prescribing pilot due to take place this spring.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre will launch a secure data lab for viewing sensitive patient data in March, allowing it to support the pathfinder stage of NHS England’s controversial care.data programme.