Adrian Byrne , CIO , and Ashwin Pinto , Chief Clinical Information Officer , discuss the Trust ’ s digital strategy and how it supports patients
UHSFT
Adrian Byrne , CIO , and Ashwin Pinto , Chief Clinical Information Officer , discuss the Trust ’ s digital strategy and how it supports patients
As one of the largest singlesite NHS Trust ’ s in the country , the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust ( UHSFT ) has a number of different units at its sites dedicated to supporting different patients with specialist needs .
Included at the site is a children ’ s hospital with one of the very few paediatric cardiac surgery programmes in the country , a cancer hospital , neuro hospital , adult cardiac services , a major trauma centre and a women ’ s hospital .
“ We are one of the biggest single-site hospitals in the country ,” said Ashwin Pinto , Joint Chief Clinical Information Officer and Consultant in Clinical Neurology at UHSFT .
He added : “ We ' re unusual in that everything ' s been centralised on this site .”
As well as serving its patients , UHSFT is also a University teaching hospital . This means it teaches future medical professionals as well as embarking on medical research .
Pinto outlined the research the Trust has done in recent years : “ In the pandemic , we were either the second or third most active research hospital in the country in terms of recruiting people to COVID trials . We were one of the leaders in the COVID vaccine trials . We actually nationally led the COV- Boost study that allowed us to recommend booster vaccinations .”
208 February 2022