MEDITECH and Centennial MIT:

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust: MEDITECH Customer since 1992

City Hospitals Sunderland is an Acute Trust providing a wide range of hospital services, including A&E, surgical and medical specialties, therapy services, and maternity and paediatric care. The Trust recognises the patient's right to choice, respect, and dignity. City Hospitals Sunderland was established as an NHS Trust in April 1994 and became an NHS Foundation Trust in July 2004.

The Trust has 1,000 acute beds and a team of over 5,000 dedicated and committed staff. The Trust provides a wide range of hospital services to a local community of 330,000 residents along with an increasing range of more specialised services provided to patients outside this area, in some cases to a population as great as 750,000. The Trust also provides a substantial range of community-based services, particularly within Family Care and Therapy Services.

To meet the demands of a large population, City Hospitals Sunderland employs MEDITECH’s full information system, including its Patient Administration System, Electronic Patient Record, and other departmental solutions. They integrate with Choose and Book and use our Referral and Pathway Tracking tools to avoid breach. They share the same Patient Care and Patient Safety solutions across maternity, outpatient areas, and in all Nursing Wards. Access to order communications, electronic prescribing, and inherent clinical decision support (all available through our Consultant Care Manager) has resulted in 100% utilisation of electronic prescribing. MEDITECH is even used in their A&E and Radiology departments, including full PACS integration.

City Hospitals Sunderland was an early participant in the NHS Choose & Book Programme. MEDITECH started working with Sunderland NHS Trust nearly two years prior to when all UK hospitals were to have the solution in place. MEDITECH, the hospital, and FileTek communicated directly with Connecting for Health to get the specifications approved, and later, all parties underwent the testing process together.

City Hospitals Sunderland has enjoyed a long and fulfilling partnership with MEDITECH, which is now expanding with their migration to our latest 6.0 technology.


Read more in: "Sunderland to Deploy MEDITECH v.6.0."