Newsletters
April newsletter 2022
Related Content
Our April Newsletter gives you important information on how we are improving our support experience , tells you how we are reducing our impact on the planet and lets you know where you can see our teams face to face.
Improving our support experience
We are pleased to provide an update on our commitment to improving your support experience. In addition to introducing new processes and enhancements, we have spent time over the past few months troubleshooting and resolving some outstanding issues which we know have caused frustration for some of our users.
Find out more about the updates here.
EMIS Recruit – available to all GP practices from 9th May
Following a staged implementation, EMIS Recruit will be available to all GP practices for activation from 9th May. If you have not received one already, you will receive an email when it is ready for your practice.
What is EMIS Recruit?
Recruit makes it easy for staff to view clinical research studies that are recruiting patients near your practice and display a list of potential participants.
Recruit
will be available to users via the portals module in the EMIS Web main menu,
this will open the Recruit studies portal.
Important: This is a new service and the first studies to be added to EMIS Recruit shortly. The number of studies will increase over time as the service becomes established and more practices sign up.
Upcoming events
ProScript Connect Training Webinar: Repeat Management Service (RMS)
Join us at 10.30 on 12 May where we’ll demonstrate how repeat requests can be created manually from the PMR, or automatically via EPS.
The Clinical Pharmacy Congress
The Clinical Pharmacy Congress takes place at the Excel, London on 13 and 14 May. The Clinical Pharmacy Congress is an opportunity for healthcare professionals to learn, network and take the time to reflect on patient care. Come and join us to chat with Esther Harvey from the PharmOutcomes team, as well as Emma Dowling from Hospital Pharmacy. You can find our stand in halls N11-N15, number J45.
Digital Healthcare Show
The Digital Healthcare Show takes place at the Excel, London on 18 and19 May where you will find us on stand K50. We look forward to seeing you there and updating you on all of the exciting developments we have been working on.
We also have two speaking sessions:
Data & Analytics Theatre: A new reality: Analytics and AI at the heart of the clinical workflow
Kristian Jones - Chief Analytics Officer EMIS, 18 May at 2:30 p.m.
Keynote Theatre: Access, capacity and demand: How to digitally enable your PCN
Dr. Aravinth Balachandran - Clinical Director Folkestone, Hythe and Rural PCN GP Partner Oaklands Health Centre NHS England and Improvement South East Region Primary Care Transformation Programme
and Dr Shaun O'Hanlon - Chief Medical Officer EMIS Group, 19 May at 2:15 p.m. (including 5-10 minute Q&A)
The EMIS NUG Annual Conference and Exhibition
The EMIS NUG Annual Conference and Exhibition will once again take place in the beautiful city of York 29 June – 1 July with an outstanding program, excellent speakers and networking opportunities.
We will once again be providing:
- A schedule of EMIS and external speakers, providing an overview of future roadmaps, product demos and thoughtful case studies
- Q+A Sessions with experts from across the business
- A series of training sessions to help you get the most out of EMIS Web
- An interactive stand where you can talk to our trainers, optimisations experts and support teams
This year's exciting programme has now been published.
Focus on Earth Day
April 22 was World Earth Day and we spent the week sharing some of the projects we have been working on to reduce our impact on the planet as we deliver crucial services. We have also shared those projects here in case you missed them.
What ESG means to our Chief Executive Officer, Andy Thorburn
At EMIS, we are proud of the work we are doing and the commitment of our teams to do the right thing in the right way.
Andy share his thought on the power of that commitment and what we can achieve.
Recycling initiative in the warehouse
Over the last several years we’ve become more environmentally aware in all areas of our business and the recycling initiative in the warehouse is one area where we have made some huge changes.
Read more about how we are minimising our impact to the environment in our warehouse.
Electric Vehicles
We have committed to our vehicle fleet being all electric by 2026 and 56% of our vehicle fleet is already electric or hybrid.
To help make greener lifestyles more affordable for our teams we introduced an electric vehicle scheme at the end of last year. Individuals can now order via our salary sacrifice scheme to make their personal goals of greener lifestyles more affordable. We have already had our first delivery and it's regularly seen at our Fulford Grange office using the newly installed electric charging points.
Read more about the electric vehicle scheme here.
A Carbon Neutral Marketing Team
Inspired by the company’s wider approach to reducing our environmental impact, the Group Marketing team have set itself a challenge to become the first carbon neutral team in the business.
"I’m really passionate about finding ways to tackle the climate emergency and make sustainable choices in my personal life and in my community, and so I’m thrilled that I’m able to lead this project for the Marketing team, and be able to make a positive impact in my professional life as well." Michaella Biscomb, our Head of Customer Communications.
Ecologi and us
On world earth day last year, we launched our initiative to plant trees for each new member of staff joining us. This year we share our progress with our partner Ecologi, and how we are expanding the initiative this year and beyond.
Max Phillips from Ecologi has this to say about our partnership:
"EMIS are a fantastic partner to work with. They understand the nuance of prioritising internal emissions reductions, whilst still helping fund climate action externally. We've been continually impressed by the passion of their team for finding more sustainable solutions."
Product updates
Primary care
EMIS Web
- Information Leaflets - new enhancements will continue to be activated at organisations with EMIS Web 9.14.1 or above for England and other regions.
A series
of improvements have made to Patient Access Connect to transform it into a new
‘Local Services’ platform. The Local Services functionality was released in
EMIS Web 9.14.1 and uses EMIS-X technology to make it even easier to implement
local referral pathways and pave the way for future enhancements and
capabilities.
We've completed a successful pilot programme and have now started activating
this new platform for all our Patient Access Connect customers which is due for
completion by the end of May.
You don't need to take any action for this change to take effect. Once the
existing Patient Access Connect button will be replaced by a new Local Services
icon which will take you through to a new dashboard.
Community
- We're continuing to roll out our latest EMIS Web Community releases. In England, EMIS Web 9.14.3 is available now to all Community Enterprise customers.
- This mandatory update includes extensive enhancements to Dynamic Templates and Service Level EPS Prescribing support for organisations with multiple ODS codes.
This release also enables us to complete a mandatory upgrade to SQL Server. All Community Enterprise customers in England must complete their upgrade to 9.14.3 or later by the end of May - please contact your Customer Relationship Manager to arrange this. You can find the Community-focused release notes for 9.14.3 on EMIS Now. - In Scotland, our upcoming 9.15.1 release includes the above plus Scotland-specific enhancements and our new Dynamic Templates History Views functionality. This release is available for customer testing from late April.
- We have a range of exciting customer developments ongoing at the moment. Entrust Virtual Smartcard support has now completed NHSD pilot and is available for Community customers to pilot. Contact your Customer Relationship Manager if you would like to be involved in the programme.
- We're continuing work on the Digital Child Health programme for our next release, and have engaged with a customer working group as part of this. Contact your Customer Relationship Manager if you would like to be involved.
- This mandatory update includes extensive enhancements to Dynamic Templates and Service Level EPS Prescribing support for organisations with multiple ODS codes.
EMIS Mobile
- Our latest version of EMIS Mobile iOS 6.2 was released this month. This release focuses on user experience enhancements and fixing priority problem fixes. You can find the full release notes on EMIS Now.