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Ringwood Medical Practice

Ringwood Medical Practice now supplying patient information to the Dorset Care Record

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Clinicians at University Hospitals Dorset are now able to access GP data through the Dorset Care Record from the Ringwood Medical Practice in Hampshire. The GP practice, part of the Avon Valley Primary Care Network, is the first cross-border surgery to provide this information.
As well as covering Ringwood, the practice also takes patients from parts of the New Forest, including the surroundings villages of Ibsley, Poulner and Hightown, as well as patients living in the Dorset villages of Ashley Heath and St Leonards.
We are continuing to work with other cross-border GP practices including the Coastal Medical Partnership at New Milton and surgeries on the Wiltshire/Dorset border, such as Sixpenny Handley on the Cranborne Chase.
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DCR Highly Commended and Runner-Up for our Benefits Work

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Delivery of efficiency savings along with benefits in patient experience, care and safety led the Dorset Care Record to be highly commended in the Health Tech Efficiency Savings of the Year award. Benefits found include the delivery of more than £2m in efficiency savings to its health and social care partners in 2021/2, with savings increasing over time as more data was added, making it easier for users to find information without logging into other systems or making enquiries. Continue reading “DCR Highly Commended and Runner-Up for our Benefits Work” →

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Dorset Council Team of the Year award – DCR long-listed

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The Dorset Care Record Project Management Office (PMO) team have today been told that we have been longlisted for the Dorset Council Team of the Year award.

The nomination will now be taken through the long-listing process, after which we will find out whether we’ve been short-listed for the final judging.

The announcement come a week after the DCR team was told it had been shortlisted for the Health Tech Efficiency Savings Award.

 

 

 

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Benefits work nets Dorset Care Record a place in the final of national awards competiton

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Delivery of efficiency savings along with benefits in patient experience, care and safety has led the Dorset Care Record to be shortlisted for a national award. The shared care record is through to the Health Tech Efficiency Savings of the Year award.

Benefits found include the delivery of just over £2m in efficiency savings to its health and social care partners in 2021-2, with efficiency savings increasing over time as more data was added, making it easier for users to find information without logging into other systems or making enquiries. Continue reading “Benefits work nets Dorset Care Record a place in the final of national awards competiton” →

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Further DCR Autumn Training Sessions as we approach 5,000 trained users

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Our training manager Laura Bonner is organising a series of facilitated webinars for staff over the next couple of months.

The training sessions come at a time when there is growing interest in our Shared Care Record. Latest figures show that nearly 5,000 health and social care professionals have completed our mandatory training around information sharing and security. Continue reading “Further DCR Autumn Training Sessions as we approach 5,000 trained users” →

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Feedback from our mandatory training module on information sharing and security

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We are nearing our target of having 5,000 trained users across our health and social care partners completing our mandatory training module on information sharing and security by the end of the year.

At present, we are just 400 short of the target and more sessions are planned for August (see below) Continue reading “Feedback from our mandatory training module on information sharing and security” →

John Hutchence

Growing the use of the Dorset Care Record – A Partner’s story

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One of Dorset HealthCare’s Project Support Officers, John Hutchence, has for the past 4 months been working on finding out what DHC users think of DCR and how to promote the system. In our latest blog, John highlights some of important feedback received and details what is being done to further promote the system.

DCR has been live for several years and statistics regarding use are regularly sent out to partner organisations. The number of trained users within DHC has risen to over 1000, but the number of active users each month has typically been around 20% of this figure.  In mid-February a questionnaire was sent out to all trained users to find out more about how the Trust uses DCR, with a view to increase the figures. Continue reading “Growing the use of the Dorset Care Record – A Partner’s story” →