The trust's electronic patient records team, with the support of colleagues on Ward 8, recently piloted the shift to recording and administrating drug information via an Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system called MedChart.

The new way of working has helped to build a clearer picture of each patient's medication, improve communication between nursing, medical and pharmacy staff and minimise manual, paper chart-based errors.

Clinical team leader, Shanese Malcolm, said: ‘The MedChart has brought about positive change, it increases accessibility for the team, it is more efficient and saves us much-needed time that we can spend one-to-one with the patients.'

The system is also being implemented across other wards at Moseley Hall and West Health Hospitals.