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Dress rehearsal to assess our readiness for Unity

April 16, 2018

We will be running a dress rehearsal of Unity today (Monday 16 April). The rehearsal will be a first run through of all activities that will take place during the go live of our new electronic patient record to identify any issues ahead of go live.

Technical teams have been carrying out the full breadth of their activities this week (apart from switching any systems off). For operational teams next week is an opportunity to verify that Unity works in a business context for each role. This means a small number of users including nurses/midwives, healthcare assistants and ward clerks will work on Unity while their colleagues will be carrying out their usual process’s on our current systems.

The Unity dress rehearsal will ensure that each role will be able to provide patient care in their respective roles.

The users that have been identified and allocated have already been informed and briefings provided throughout this week. Below are the dates which each location will be rehearsing.

  • 16 April – Sandwell ED, Sandwell Inpatient Wards
  • 17 April – City Hospital ED, City Hospital inpatient wards, Community inpatient areas
  • 18 April – Outpatient Areas

For more information please email  swbh.trustindigital@nhs.net