Airedale appoints PricewaterhouseCoopers to help deliver EPR

Exclusive: Airedale NHS Foundation Trust has appointed professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers to help deliver its delayed electronic patient record (EPR). The Millennium EPR from Oracle Health was initially scheduled to be deployed at the trust in September 2024, but the date was pushed back until November 2024 to allow further testing to ensure the system’s safety and efficiency. The go-live was then postponed again in November 2024, with no new date scheduled, the trust told Digital Health News. A trust board paper published on 3 September 2025 confirms that the organisation “is yet to move towards full implementation of a new EPR system”. “The safeguarding teams will continue to ensure risks are highlighted and plans to mitigate these risks are being worked on, including the set-up of new EPR safeguarding systems and documentation templates,” the board paper adds. Leanne Cooper, chief operating officer and senior responsible officer for the EPR programme at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, told Digital Health News: “After reviewing organisational readiness we paused our electronic patient record go-live in November 2024. “This pause has given us the opportunity to review any outstanding work and the issues that need to be resolved to ensure a safe and sustainable go-live. “In the spring this year we appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers to be our EPR delivery partner. “They are working with the trust’s EPR programme team and the wider organisation on a future state gap analysis which, when completed, will confirm the work programme needed to take us to go-live and enable us to set a date.” PricewaterhouseCoopers, which helps solve problems for public, private and third sector clients, was one of 22 companies named on the new version of the Crown Commercial Services’ Digital Capability for Health framework in January 2025.