Priory nominated for Health Tech Awards after Nourish digital records system saves 80,000 staff hours

Nourish’s digital records system has saved Priory, the UK’s leading independent provider of mental health services, more than 80000 staff hours, releasing them from admin tasks and allowing more time for direct resident support. As a result, Priory has been nominated at the 2023/4 Health Tech Awards for its use of the system.   The new Nourish system has enabled the digitisation of Priory’s adult care resident support plans and risk assessments and has significantly reduced use of paper forms saving an estimated 84,554 hours per annum in staff time. After an 18-month rollout, the digital system has been implemented at 190 resident sites nationwide and is used in the care provided to more than 2,300 residents.   Priory has now been nominated in the Frontline Digitisation Project of the Year category at the 2023/4 Health Tech Awards with the winners to be announced on 24 January.   Paul Barnes, Chief Commercial Officer at Nourish, said: “Nourish is proud of the impact it makes on the people we help support. To work with Priory Group on their digital transformation journey has been a real pleasure. The professionalism and dedication of their team has enabled the implementation of Nourish at an impressive pace and we’re now looking forward to measuring the outcomes. Nourish and Priory Group are committed to working closely together to go beyond simply evidencing care delivery, the future here is exciting for everyone.”   Christine Keyse, Priory Adult Care managing director for South West and Wales, said: “The time and expertise we invest in supporting our residents makes a huge difference to them. Our adult care service is home to some of the most vulnerable people in the UK, including autistic people and those with a complex learning disability; it means the world to us to see them living their lives to the full. My favourite piece of feedback from our colleagues is ‘We have more time to care’. Planned, developed, and implemented in partnership with Nourish, this bespoke digital care records system also enables the people we support to build their own profiles and input into how the care provided to them is delivered.”   Rebekah Cresswell, Priory chief executive officer, said: “Good systems help us make a massive difference to people’s lives, and the scale and impact of this project is huge. I am really proud of the team in terms of managing this large-scale transformational change. Nourish digital records are now being used at all of our 190 care homes, and directly impacting the care of more than 2,300 residents, saving on duplication of paper records, ensuring increased consistency of record keeping, and freeing up thousands of hours of our colleagues’ time, so they can even better support people to live their life. This is an example of how investment by private equity in the social care market can make a huge difference.”   About Nourish Care   Nourish is the leading provider of digital care management software in the UK. Nourish was one of the first digital social care record suppliers to be recognised as an NHS Transformation Directorate Assured Supplier at launch and is accredited by PRSB as a Quality Partner. The easy-to-use technology provides care teams with person-centred tools, timelines, assessments, and more to drive outstanding care and improve outcomes for those with support needs. Nourish works with more than 3,500 care services in the UK and overseas within residential homes, nursing homes, learning disability services, mental health services, and other care settings.     About Priory and MEDIAN   Priory is the UK’s leading independent provider of mental health services. We treat more than 70 conditions including depression, anxiety, addictions, and eating disorders, as well as children’s mental health, across our nationwide network of sites. We also support autistic adults and adults with a learning disability, Prader-Willi Syndrome and brain injuries, as well as older people, within our specialist residential care and supported living facilities– helping as many people as possible to live their lives.   Priory is part of the MEDIAN Group, one of Europe’s leading providers of high-quality mental health and rehabilitation services. The MEDIAN Group comprises 290 facilities with 5,000 beds caring for 28,000 people in the United Kingdom, 120 facilities with 20,000 beds caring for around 250,000 patients in Germany, and 15 facilities with 2,000 beds caring for 13,000 people in Spain, with more than 29,000 employees overall.