MTW teams award finalists in Health Tech Newspaper Now awards

The work of the Digital Transformation Team, Clinical Systems Team and IT Team at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW) has been recognised in the Health Tech Newspaper (HTN) Now awards by being announced as finalists in the Health Tech Team of the Year category.

HTN Now Awards share and celebrate innovations, teams and health tech suppliers that have made a difference throughout the year. The MTW teams submitted a shared entry for the work undertaken during 2020/21 which included the roll out of Windows 10, Allscripts Sunrise Electronic Patient Records (EPR) and the bed management system TeleTracking, as well as ongoing work to make MTW a PaperLite organisation.

Jane Saunders, Programme Director for EPR (Sunrise) and Digital Transformation at MTW commented: “To be shortlisted for this award is a great achievement and recognises the fantastic work that the teams have done to roll out a number of major digital transformation programmes across the Trust.

“Over the last 12 months, the Trust has made huge strides in delivering digitally seamless enhanced patient care and we plan to continue this at pace in the in the year ahead to continue to deliver the Trust’s digital strategy.”

Winners were announced via a virtual ceremony held at the end of last month. Further information about the HTN awards can be found here. You can see more about the digital programme of work, including our implementation of electronic patient records, over the last year on our website too.