Care Planning enhances care delivery through the standardization of care

• The expansion of Elsevier's Care Planning will help drive towards ICS-wide consistency of acute hospital care.

• Access to the industry's latest, complete, and trusted content will ensure evidence-based practice is widely adopted amongst the nursing workforce.

• Seamless integration with established clinical workflows to encourage the enhancement of the operational efficiency.

Elsevier, a global leader in scientific information and data analytics, is pleased to announce the expansion of its Clinical Decisions Support (CDS) solution, Care Planning, across the North West London Integrated Care System (ICS) serving a population of 2.1 million people across eight boroughs.

This is an extension of the initial partnership with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, which integrated Elsevier’s Care Planning across the nursing team in 2020, to reinforce evidence-based practice at the point of care. Following successful implementation, the deployment of Care Planning across the ICS will help to reduce variation in patient care, further improving the nursing team’s operational efficiency.

A total of 319 evidence-based, patient-centred care plans, will be made available to thousands of nurses, across the four acute trusts in the ICS. The content has been pre-built and will be delivered via a structured, normalised database, to ensure predictable and timely integration with the organisation’s Electronic Patient Record.

James Bird, Chief Nurse Information Officer (CNIO) at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, stated: “Reinforcing evidence-based practice is essential in reducing variation as the complexity of health needs increase. Technology must play a role in supporting our clinicians and delivering the right information to them, at the right time.”

“The integration of Elsevier’s Care Planning in Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, and the subsequent extension of the partnership to all the acute trusts in the North West London ICS, presents the opportunity to empower our workforce by providing nurses with easy access to the latest, evidence-based content. This will reduce variability and ensure the continued delivery of high quality patient care at every stage in the patient journey.”

Jan Herzhoff, President of Global Health Markets at Elsevier, says: “We are delighted to be extending our partnership in the North West London Integrated Care System. Elsevier’s Care Planning helps to integrate the patient’s story, evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, and standardised assessments, into a single care plan. This will reduce fragmentation, preventing omissions of care and ultimately bringing high-level benefits that help organisations navigate increasingly challenging clinical environments.”