A major teaching hospital is being sued by one of the bidders hoping to provide its electronic patient record system, HSJ has reported.
Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust’s IT procurement is being challenged by Canadian firm Altera, one of three shortlisted bidders. The other two are UK-based Nervecentre and US company Meditech.
The company’s SunRise EPR is already used by Liverpool Heart and Chest FT, while the other providers in the system use a mix of systems from Meditech, System C and Oracle. A spokesperson for the company said it wanted to work across “the entire city”.
The firm said it had been excluded from the procurement process ahead of the evaluation stage.
The process started after the trust submitted a business case to NHS England in 2023, thought to be for around £70m in capital. It is one of seven that will miss the March 2026 deadline to have an EPR installed, as part of the £2.2bn Frontline Digitisation Programme.
Altera filed its claim with the High Court earlier this month. A court date has not yet been set.
Date: 20 October