West London NHS Trust plans £29 million digital strategy
The West London NHS Trust digital strategy for 2025 – 2030 is centred around six pillars, to cover infrastructure, cyber, systems optimisation, data and insights, AI and innovation, and empowering people. Estimated capital investment for the delivery of the digital strategy is £29 million, to be phased over five years, with “clear milestones and benefits realisation targets”. A digital PMO and programme boards will oversee each pillar. Years one and two will look to develop “strong foundations”, taking a look at existing systems, standardising workflows, establishing clear governance, and assessing digital literacy. Years two to four will focus on optimisation, with digital systems such as EPRs, data platforms, and business intelligence tools developed, digital tools introduced, workflows refined, and interoperability across systems enhanced. Longer term priorities in years four and five cover transformation at scale, system-wide interoperability, seamless digital care, and data-driven insight for proactive health management.
Royal Marsden sets out plans for digital, data, innovation, and collaboration in new strategy to 2029
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has shared its Digital, Data and Technology strategy to 2029, building on a “good platform for digital growth and a set of capable and effective tools” resulting from the successful delivery of its previous strategy. The trust’s roadmap for 2025/26 looks to focus on an AI framework, ambient AI pilot, digital standards and training plan, low code automation first of type, cyber awareness campaign, and administrative AI use cases. For 2026/27, the focus is NHS App integration, FDP compliance, HIMSS 7, Internet of Things capability, and integrated discovery and diagnostics. Looking ahead to the strategy end date of 2029, RM outlines plans around enhancing AI capabilities, completing the roll-out of ambient AI, regional interconnectivity and interoperability, enhanced digital standards and support capabilities, an “intrinsic” cyber awareness culture, and being a digital exemplar.
South London and Maudsley plans EPR and patient engagement portal procurement in new digital and data strategy
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has shared its upcoming digital and data strategy, along with key targets to determine its success. Plans are for an EPR to be implemented in 2027, which it hopes will enable the delivery of additional systems such as ambient voice technology. “A clear priortisation will be required to prevent double running – AI will be part of the EPR,” it notes. Core focuses of the new strategy include developing a digitally literate and skilled workforce to help maximise adoption of digital technologies, ensuring available data is leveraged for population health management and predictive analytics, and establishing a digitally integrated care model facilitating seamless coordination across services within and beyond the trust’s borders. Strengthening foundations by enhancing existing systems and simplifying current processes is another focus, with SLaM planning to review current uses of tools and processes to identify duplication and opportunities for improved efficiencies. Structured “role appropriate” training will be offered to staff to support them in using available technology more effectively, clinical systems will be aligned to clinical workflows, and systems will be integrated within the trust and with partners.
Oxleas NHS FT strategy update notes ambient AI, NHS App, data projects
The board of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust has offered an update on its trust strategy, celebrating successes to date, responding to changes in the external environment, and exploring priorities around digital to 2027. Key digital achievements to date include the roll out of digital prescribing in the community, which has resulted in more than 5,500 digital prescriptions being written. The trust’s online patient portal, Oxcare, is set to be integrated with the NHS App thanks to £500,000 in funding, said to provide enhanced functionality around patient questionnaires and appointment management, as well as reducing the administrative workload for staff. Options for neighbourhood interoperability solutions are being explored to support joined-up care.
Core infrastructure modernisation, AI and automation, AVT from London Ambulance Service
London Ambulance Service shared updates on a range of digital and data programmes underway across the trust, looking at patient outcomes, core infrastructure modernisation, AI and automation, ePCR, and ambient voice technology. A key strategic highlight offered by the board is the transition of the My Clinical Feedback digital product, co-designed by the trust to allow paramedics to receive structured feedback on patient outcomes following conveyance, into a national Federated Data Platform product. The trust has led on successful implementation across London, and will continue to act as the national reference site during national rollout in 2026/27. Opportunities from the NHSE Frontline Productivity Programme include cyber security enhancements, the expansion of AVT, improvements to network resilience, EPR optimisation, and cloud-first infrastructure, LAS outlines. Progress is ongoing on core infrastructure modernisation, including the renewal of legacy systems supporting 999.
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children shares digital achievements and commitments to 10-Year Plan
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust has shared digital achievements around ambient voice roll out, EPR training, and AI, highlighting plans and commitments in line with the 10-Year Plan. The launch of Bedside MyChart, an inpatient portal, achieved rapid adoption, with 38 percent of inpatients engaging in the first month, saving more than 24 hours of nursing time. October 2025 also saw the implementation of the second phase of the London Care Record, reportedly enabling visibility of patients across other London trusts. The Epic Thrive programme has been delivering personalised training to more than 200 clinicians, with GOSH adding that uptake has increased by 50 percent with the introduction of the Tortus ambient voice solution now being rolled out across the trust.
The trust also unveiled a new platform designed to generate clinical intelligence from routine health data, developed in-house by its Data Research, Innovation and Virtual Environments unit. Developed using open-source languages including R and Python, the platform takes de-identified data from patient cohorts and transforms it into “a bespoke in-house common data model” developed as part of a pre-existing ETL library, that outlines clinical events like diagnoses and procedures in table format. A library of analytics functions such as frequency analysis and measures-of-association analysis, then offer clinical intelligence in response to input queries.
East London NHS Foundation Trust outlines digital progress and future digital ambitions
East London NHS Foundation Trust outlined recent digital progress and future digital ambitions in its most recent board meeting, indicating ongoing work on EPR procurement, and the role of digital in patient flow. Collaborative work is continuing with Homerton Healthcare and North East London NHS Foundation Trust on the shared use of the Rio EPR, the trust shares, with an agreement in principle to extend contracts to 31 March 2028, and teams developing a common strategic approach to future provision. A full assessment of procurement options is to be undertaken over the next year, with a final recommendation to be presented by Q3 2026.
A digital bed management tool has been implemented to grant real-time visibility of bed status, patient flow, and bottlenecks, the trust updates, with automated escalation and clearer performance metrics. Migration to a new cloud provider supporting enhanced backup and business recovery processes has been successful; an infrastructure upgrade programme is continuing; and opportunities are being explored for alignment of EPR platforms and the uptake of digital tools.
£7 million investment approved for robotic process automation, AI, data, cloud at Kingston and Richmond NHS
A £7 million investment over three years has been approved for Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust’s Digital, Data & Technology Strategy, identifying ten initiatives including robotic process automation, AI chatbots, and real-time dashboards, “with ROI estimated at 240 percent”. The trust also shares its medium term plan for 2026-31, highlighting digital transformation and digital tools. The trust lists digital as an enabler in its medium term plan for the next five years, with plans to introduce RPA and automation to reduce admin burdens, AI chatbots to support patients and staff, dynamic staff scheduling and clinical utilisation tools, and cloud and network modernisation improvements. When looking at transformation for trust and neighbourhood, plans include more virtual appointments, patient-initiated follow-up via the NHS App, digital mapping of neighbourhood frailty pathways to support digital joining-up, and integration of community and acute data for prevention and early intervention.
