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MERIT Mental Health Crisis-Care Sharing

This page tracks the MERIT mental health shared-record example from the official InterSystems UK evidence set.

Official InterSystems Claim

InterSystems says MERIT involved Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and three other West Midlands mental health trusts. The vendor source says the consortium established an integrated care record system to support mental health crisis-care information sharing across trust boundaries and more than 3 million patients.

Product / Service

HealthShare / integrated care record.

Evidence Status

Confidence is moderate-high for the supplier and contract trail, and moderate for operational outcomes. The InterSystems page is vendor-published, but BSMHFT FOI material states that the MERIT system was provided by Intersystem and lists an Intersystems HSSF Contract for MERIT from 01/04/2021 to 31/03/2026.

A 2023 Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust FOI response adds external trust-side support: it lists MERIT as an InterSystems integrated care system, describes integrations with BSMHFT, Black Country Partnership, and Coventry and Warwickshire PAS systems, and states there were no replacement plans as of that response.

This strengthens evidence that MERIT was a cross-trust InterSystems-backed system. It still does not answer whether MERIT continued, changed supplier, or was replaced after the BSMHFT contract end date of 31 March 2026.

The 2026-06-18 follow-up search found no public post-31 March 2026 continuity source. The historic FOI trail alone does not establish current MERIT supplier or live-service status.

See Birmingham and West Midlands Validation for the broader regional shared-care-record and standards evidence trail.

Remaining Follow-up Evidence

  • Current BSMHFT or MERIT source confirming whether the system continued after 31 March 2026.
  • Current publications from the other participating mental health trusts.
  • Clinical-safety, information-governance, or programme-governance material.
  • Outcome evidence for crisis-care access, timeliness, or clinical use.