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London, UK – Feb 2026 – VitalHub UK and CEMBooks have announced a partnership focused on supporting NHS organisations with complementary digital tools for operational insight and situational awareness. The partnership brings together SHREWD, VitalHub UK’s system-level operational platform used to support escalation, coordination, reporting and digital OPEL, with CEMBooks’ department-focused operational management tools. The…

Leveraging CEMBooks to Deliver the 2025/26 NHS Planning Mandates The 2025/26 Challenge: A National Mandate for Change The new NHS Planning Guidance is clear: 2025/26 is a “reset moment.” With a national requirement to achieve an unprecedented 4% productivity improvement, reduce agency spend by 30%, and hit a 78% A&E 4-hour target, “business as usual” is no longer an option.…

We’ve been listening, iterating, and pushing hard to improve your experience. Here’s a look at the latest updates from sprints 35 and 36 that are now live: 🔔 Tasking Expansion •    Create non clinical tasks, so walkarounds, Gemmba’s or  command meeting actions are captured, acted upon, and evidenced…     •    Assign tasks to people…

CEMBooks is excited to announce a new integration with HealthRota, enabling Emergency Departments to automatically feed real-time staffing data directly into CEMBooks’ operational reporting platform. HealthRota offers intuitive software that simplifies complex rostering and workforce administration tasks for the NHS, with over 50,000 registered users across more than 70 Trusts. Its core e-Rostering solution, along with…

In the November 2024 issue of the British Medical Journal there was a controversial article discussing plans to regulate NHS managers, following an announcement from Health Minister Karen Smyth’s part of the turnaround of the NHS saying that we need a “culture of transparency that keeps patients safe.” Time and time again, opaque practices and…

In the 30 November edition of the BMJ I was struck by a publication and accompanying commentary from Moscelli and colleagues which showed higher monthly turnover rates of hospital nurses and senior doctors were associated with higher mortality risks for patients after emergency admission to hospital.  We know that organisational factors such as culture, staffing,…

The Emergency Department and Same Day Emergency Care teams in Leeds Teaching Hospitals started using the Tasks module on CEMBooks this spring.  At their June ‘Friday Focus’ recently, Dr Jon Jones and Dr Stuart Nuttall (ED Consultants) presented to the wider organisation how the rollout had gone and the how the drive to improve safety…

I’m really looking forward to the panel discussion in September at the National Health Executive NHS Emergency and Urgent Care conference. The focus of the panel will be on preventing admissions. We’ve seen, and now have fairly good evidence, that preventing attendance to ED/UEC isn’t an effective strategy to improving ED performance. One of the…

The Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Urgent and Emergency Care Programme continues in 2024 with the UEC Further Faster Programme being rolled out through this spring. The previous focus of GIRFT has been on outpatient care so it’s great to see the principles being applied to Urgent care. The focus of the programme in…

At CEMBooks, we understand that successful solutions go beyond just the software itself. While we prioritise great system design and user experience to address challenges, we recognise that the journey to implementation is multifaceted and requires careful attention to expertise, processes and culture. We firmly believe that software is a key component in providing solutions…

This week we rolled out our latest product update from sprint 30.   Refinement and improvement was the theme in this update as we brought tweaks to our Tasks module and improved security to CEMBooks V2. Tasks: Through the autumn We’ve seen Tasks undergo testing in our sites prior to rollout which will be exciting to…

Welcome to the Snapshot feature on CEMbooks V2. This is a really exciting new feature that we hope you’ll find useful for Site and Operations Management throughout the day. Snapshot uses all of the data that is sent through to the CEMBooks API from your data warehouse with an hour by hour report exported as…

Welcome to the Tasks module on CEMBooks V2. Purpose We’ve designed this module to support the management of task allocation. This might be on a ward, in an ED, or from an operational meeting.  Effectively anything where you want to record, track, and assign a task in your organisation. The ‘due time’ for the longest…

Dr. Pete Cutting, Risk Lead at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Emergency Departments explains how CEMBooks supports the new NHS Patient Safety Incident Reporting Framework. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lthtinnovation_cembooks-and-risk-management-activity-7034924259751682049-4NCi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

KPI’s – key performance indicators.  Not just the basic numbers that have to be reported to central agencies but the things that make your ward or department tick, that make it feel pressured, that you know if they’re sorted means that the department will run smoothly? One of the first things we do when implementing…