BCHC NHS Foundation Trust Choose Wellola As Their Clinical & Administrative Patient Portal Provider

Wellola is delighted to announce that it has been selected by Birmingham Community

Healthcare (BCHC) NHS Foundation Trust to deliver their new Patient Portal platform,

putting more power in the hands of patients when it comes to managing their care.

The new Patient Portal platform will enable the Trust to deliver enhanced patient-facing

services, including the ability for patients to view aspects of their medical record, manage appointments, complete online forms and receive vital educational resources.

The project aims to revolutionise how the Trust engages with patients, involves them in their healthcare and manages the two million patient interactions it has with patients across the West Midlands region each year.

In line with BCHC’s ‘best care: healthy communities’ vision, this project is also a key piece of work in their five year ‘Fit for 2022’ plan.

Mr Bolaji Akinwale, Electronic Patient Record Programme Manager for BCHC said:

Over the last five years we have been working to accelerate the use of digital technology within our services. Up to now much of this work has focussed on ensuring colleagues, especially patient facing ones, have the tools they need to provide the best care to our service users. This next phase is a really important step in putting more power and choice in the hands of our service users.

Sonia Neary, CEO, and co-founder of Wellola said:

Our partners and customers are increasingly voicing challenges related to increasing demand for services, waiting lists and management of bed capacity. Our hope is to alleviate these pressures among others for organisations such as BCHC. Wellola’s portal is already deployed in many public and private healthcare organisations in the UK and Ireland, giving patients access to both primary and secondary care services through one integrated platform, and we are delighted to have secured another NHS Trust working in the Community setting.

The implementation is currently underway with a view to deployment across all areas of the Trust over the coming months.

Wellola:

For further information please contact sonia@wellola.com

Based in Ireland with offices in the UK, Wellola’s mission aligns with the NHS’s

Hospital@Home care model, ensuring that care is delivered beyond the boundaries of

hospital walls where possible. Wellola’s Portasana product is an easy to use, cost-cut

focused, highly modularised and interoperable patient portal built in a world-class AWS

infrastructure.

Wellola has collaborated with the Irish Healthcare Service Executive to deploy its solution for GPs across Ireland, Nutricia Danone to service over 170 Nursing Homes and a number of NHS Trusts, who will be deploying the Portasana solution in early 2022.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust:

For further information please contact Lyndsay Sweeney, Communications Manager via

email: Lyndsay.sweeney@nhs.net

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community and specialist services within Birmingham and the West Midlands, delivering over 100 clinical services, in people’s homes and in over 200 hospitals, health centres and clinics. BCHC provides services for adults, children, people with learning disabilities, those with rehabilitation needs and also dental services.