Airedale sets go-live date for EPR following delayLeanne Cooper, chief operating officer and senior responsible officer for the EPR programme at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust (Credit: Bob Smith/Airedale NHS FT)Airedale NHS Foundation Trust has set a new date for the go-live of its electronic patient record (EPR) system following multiple delays. A trust board paper, published on 14 January 2026, confirmed that a new go-live date of 19 October 2026 has been agreed with Oracle Health and system partners. The board paper states that given the EPR delayed go-live from November 2024 and likely deferred EPR go-live, “there will be additional capital and revenue pressures vs the EPR business case of £6.4m and £3.1m respectively in 2025/26, with internal operational capital funding restricted to £4m for EPR”. “In November 2024 we paused the EPR go-live, because we felt that we were not ready, as an organisation, to take that step. “Since then, the trust’s EPR programme team has continued to build on the work done previously to maintain the momentum and to plan in the work that needs to take place.