Case Study: Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust improves patient safety and efficiency with Allscripts Sunrise

Delivering safer patient care with advanced technology solutions

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, an NHS provider in the UK, sought an advanced electronic health record (EHR) system to bolster its patient safety initiatives and support its quality improvement strategy. Their existing EHR offered only basic functionality, so they required a more sophisticated solution from a vendor like Altera Digital Health with integrated clinical decision support to enable more connected care.

Altera Digital Health implemented its Sunrise EHR platform, which went live on time and on budget. The solution provided clinical decision support tools that led to significant outcomes, including a 10.3% reduction in elective patient length of stay, a 79% reduction in hospital-acquired pressure ulcers, and a dramatic drop in C. diff infection cases. These improvements, alongside faster prescription turnaround times, resulted in estimated annual savings of millions of dollars and contributed to the Trust receiving an "Outstanding" national rating.

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

Rachel Dunscombe

Director of Digital