In September 2020 Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust began a selection process to choose a Renal Information System for Mid Essex, Basildon & Thurrock University and Southend Hospitals. These three hospitals were merged on 1 April 2020 to create the new MSE Foundation Trust which serves more than 1.2 million people and is one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country.

MSE provides acute renal inpatient care at Basildon and outpatient and dialysis services at all three hospital sites. There are more than 500 haemodialysis patients treated in four dialysis centres and 300 transplant patients under long-term follow-up. After evaluation proposals from several renal information system vendors, Mid and South Essex decided on Airslie Ltd’s Renalware 2.0. This decision was no doubt influenced not only by Airslie’s submitted bid and demonstration but by the resounding success of Renalware at Barts and The Royal London and at Kings College Hospital Renal Unit.

Airslie’s director, Dr Hugh Cairns commented, “Needless to say we are very pleased and proud that Mid and South Essex have chosen Renalware. We are a small company but we believe our system, based on more than twenty years of end-user-driven development, is an excellent renal database app. Working with the clinicians in the different Trusts, we plan to continue to develop and improve the database. We were very happy with how smoothly the launches went at both Kings and Barts and look forward to getting the system into the Essex hospitals.”

Talks will commence shortly on the key issues of data migration, pathology feeds, and other site-specific issues.