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encompass update – Children’s Social Work and Social Care module

In February (2024), encompass announced a delay to the implementation of the Children’s Social Work and Social Care module. In...

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Apps can help you keep healthy

There are more than 380,000 health & care apps available in the marketplace. Whilst many offer different ways of managing...

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Northern Trust marks Epic milestone in healthcare

The Northern Trust has become the third HSC Trust in Northern Ireland to introduce encompass, creating a single, digital, integrated...

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Northern Ireland Public Data Panel Induction Day

We are delighted to announce the successful recruitment of 14 participants to the  Northern Ireland Public Data Panel (NIPDP).

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Digital Adult Mental Health campaign launched

A digital Adult Mental Health and Wellbeing campaign has been launched offering self-help resources and tools for those seeking support.

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Health Minister Mike Nesbitt is encouraging people to sign up to the My Care patient portal

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt is encouraging people to sign up for access to the My Care patient portal, which allows...

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Southern and Western Trusts to Complete encompass Rollout across Northern Ireland

The Southern and Western Health and Social Care Trusts will make history on 8 May 2025, as they become the...

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Belfast Trust makes the move to a single digital record

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust is now live with the new digital record system, encompass, replacing paper processes with...

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Northern Trust confirms encompass Go-Live date of Nov 7, 2024

The Northern Health and Social Care Trust will be waving goodbye to paper records this autumn when it goes live...

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Digital Dispatches, Episode 33: – Secondary use of Data

In the most recent episode of Digital Dispatches, Dr Frances Burns, Lead for Control of Data Processing Legislation and the...

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Delay to encompass Children’s Social Work and Social Care module

Northern Ireland will be among the first in the world to integrate Health and Social Care into a single patient...

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Digital Dispatches, Episode 32: encompass, Lessons Learned

In this episode of Digital Dispatches, Raied Abdul-Karim, the encompass Programme Manager, outlines the five key pillars under which the...

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Digital Dispatches, Episode 31: Digital Programmes Review

If you missed the live Digital Dispatches webinar on 5th January you can catch it now on the DHCNI YouTube...

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Programme Director, Raied Abdul Karim looks ahead to 2024 after successful SEHSCT Go-Live

As we begin 2024, I would like to commend our HSCNI, encompass, and Epic colleagues for an incredibly busy but...

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Belfast Health and Social Care Trust embraces a digital future

On Thursday 6 June 2024, Belfast Trust will become the largest Trust in Northern Ireland to implement encompass – the...

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Digital Revolution: South Eastern Trust makes history by launching first digital patient record system in NI

The South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust has become the first Trust in Northern Ireland to implement the major...

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South Eastern Trust introduce encompass, the new electronic patient record

A new era for Northern Ireland’s health service will dawn on Thursday 9 November 2023 when the South Eastern Health...

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Epic user experience

Viewers can also catch-upon an insightful discussion with Eleanor Conway, Speech & Language Therapist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for...

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South Eastern Trust prepares for encompass ‘go live’

The latest edition of Digital Dispatches focuses on encompass and in particular, plans for Go Live at South Eastern Health...

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Digital Health & Care Digital Awards 2024 – Coming Soon

The DHCNI Digital Awards will open on 1st November 2023.   Come back soon for more information on categories and...

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Telephone land lines are going digital

The switch from analogue telephone land lines to new digital phone lines is coming to Northern Ireland. The UK government...

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Digital revolution for NI patient records

A new era for Northern Ireland’s health service will dawn on Thursday 9 November 2023 when the South Eastern Health...

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Preparations continue at Belfast Trust with identification of important training rooms

The Belfast Trust encompass team has successfully secured Executive approval to commandeer and equip 62 rooms across Belfast Trust for...

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South Eastern Trust Dietician provides insight into the benefits of Epic

As South Eastern Trust step up activities to Go-Live, the team recently got speaking to Helaina Jackson, an Advanced Practice...

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Epic customer Go-Live experiences – lessons learned from the frontline at Great Ormond Street (GOSH)

The latest Digital Dispatches webinar that took place on Friday 4 August focused on staff who had been involved in...

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Are you over 18 and experiencing chronic pain?

Join the 4 month research study on Patterns, a digital companion for people who experience chronic pain.   

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Digital Dispatches – encompass Patient Portal – My Care

This month on Digital Dispatches, Ella Jameson (Senior Programme Manager, encompass) provided a progress report on the development of My...

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South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust Go-Live date announced as Nov 9, 2023

A major milestone in enhancing how Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland is to be delivered has been welcomed...

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encompass Matters! Get On Board, Get Involved

At the ’Why encompass Matters’ Digital Dispatches webinar, Angela Reed, Chief Nursing & Midwifery Information Officer and Pippa McCabe, Chief...

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encompass: How Will The Public Benefit?

Ella Jameson, a manager from the encompass build team, recently spoke about the advantages of encompass for the public.

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encompass Reignited!

On Thursday 31 March, encompass and HSCNI leadership came together for the Reignite conference.

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Over 3000 HSCNI Staff Are Shaping The Future of encompass

HSCNI staff to have a big say in the direction of encompass.

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encompass Briefing to the Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Health

Dr Dermot Hughes, Senior Responsible Owner for encompass and Mr Dan West, Chief Digital Information Officer at the Department of...

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encompass Stepping Up System Build Plans

encompass continue to build on the good work completed across HSCNI to date, as they prepare and move through the...

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Workflow Walkthrough – showcasing the first major event of encompass

Health and Social Care Staff across Northern Ireland got their first glimpse of encompass via the virtual Workflow Walkthrough process...

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encompass signs deal with FDB to use Multilex clinical decision support solution

FDB (First Databank) has signed a deal to supply its Multilex clinical decision support solution to encompass, Health and Social...

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encompass sets out on Epic journey

Covid-19 has created many challenges for everyone globally and locally. Mindful of the pressures HSCNI professionals are facing at this...

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Huge turnout for encompass demonstrations

A series of encompass solution presentations recently attracted nearly 2,000 HSC staff across Northern Ireland.

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encompass: from abstract to reality

There was an incredible turnout of staff for a recent encompass programme session, aimed at highlighting the benefits of a...

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