Global Digital Exemplar


Global Digital Exemplar is a knowledge sharing platform developed by NHS England. The programme is to enable "digitally advanced" NHS trusts to share knowledge with other NHS trusts. Specifically knowledge gained during the implementation of IT systems, and especially experience from introducing electronic health record systems. The GDE project is expected to last two to three and a half years; with the most digitally advanced trusts on the shorter time scale.
Four rounds of exemplars have been announced so far — two waves of acute trust GDEs, and one wave each of ambulance trusts, and mental health trusts. In addition, eighteen acute trust "fast followers" have been partnered with the acute trusts.
Each GDE will receive "up to £10 million" to spend on digital projects. The funding must be matched locally, but not necessarily in cash.

Acute exemplars

The first twelve exemplars were announced in 2016. A second wave added another four in 2017.
Although NHS England refers to this grouping of exemplars as "acute", a number of the hospitals operated by trusts within this group are specialised hospitals. Examples include, Alder Hey Children's Hospital and Western Eye Hospital.

North

There are eighteen acute "fast follower" trusts, each of which has been partnered with an acute GDE.
Global Digital ExemplarFast FollowerEPR provider
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation TrustClatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation TrustMeditech
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustUniversity College London Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustEpic Systems
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation TrustSouth Tyneside NHS Foundation TrustMeditech
Imperial College Healthcare NHS TrustChelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Luton & Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation TrustBedford Hospital NHS Trust
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustGateshead Health NHS Foundation TrustCerner
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustRoyal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Free London NHS Foundation TrustNorth Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS TrustInterSystems
Salford Royal NHS Foundation TrustPennine Acute Hospitals NHS TrustAllscripts
Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustHeart of England NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation TrustThe Whittington Hospital
University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation TrustHampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
West Suffolk NHS Foundation TrustMilton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation TrustCountess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation TrustCerner

Ambulance exemplars

As of July 2018, there are three ambulance trust exemplars.
There are currently seven mental health trust GDEs.