The Dorset Care Record will be unavailable from 20:00 until midnight on Thursday 10th February for essential maintenance.
Please note the feeds of information into DCR are being paused from 17:00 on Thursday 10th February until 09:00 Friday 11th February, therefore no updates to the records in DCR will be carried out during that time.
Clinical software firm TPP has made changes to its national estate allowing Dorset Care Record viewers to see a history of interactions between different services in community settings.
Until now, when a patient’s care spell is ended in a SystmOne community unit, the information was no longer shared and was not visible to clinicians using the DCR. For example, information around a patient who was under a physio team would no longer be shown when they were discharged. If they were previously admitted to Blandford Hospital, it wouldn’t show, but now it does.
The changes will benefit users who frequently look for community interactions, such as social care staff, who will now be able to see historic community spells. Continue reading “Ended care spells changes marks greater understanding of patients across community settings”
We’re delighted to announce that our diabetes pathway is now available within the Dorset Care Record for staff at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The new pathway allows clinicians involved in the treatment of diabetes patients to access more accurate data when needed.
There are 30,000 patients with diabetes living in Dorset – which represents 4% of the county’s population. Supported by the Dorset Care Record, the pathway removes the need to re-enter data and allows information to be shared between trusts. In doing so, it helps improve engagement between health professionals from different disciplines and, ensuring that different places in the care system can be used to inform and improve the treatment of patients. Continue reading “Diabetes Pathway added to the Dorset Care Record”
To help us continually look to improve the Dorset Care Record (DCR) for professionals across our health and social care partnership we would be grateful if you could spend 5 minutes filling in our short survey. It will allow you to highlight what you like and don’t like about the DCR and what you’ve love to see added or changed.
Last year’s survey responses were extremely helpful and allowed us to prove that the system was benefitting both patients and professionals alike. Continue reading “Dorset Care Record Annual User Survey – Launched”
The smoke testing has been completed for DCR and is currently underway for myDCR. Thank you for your patience during this time.
Partners can now apply the new certificates and un-pause the feeds (including sftp).
We will keep you updated when myDCR becomes available in test.
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Many people often ask us what feeds are currently in the Dorset Care Record. This table reflects some of the major initial feeds available.
Our training manager Laura Bonner is launching in January a new way to book on our mandatory facilitated training webinar on information sharing and security.
Rather than emailing the DCR training mailbox, staff can now book themselves directly onto the Teams webinar. And if staff find themselves unable to attend the booked session, they can unbook or simply book themselves on another date.
Laura said: “Hopefully, this new streamlined process will be smoother for everyone.”
You can book from the links below
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The Summary View within the Dorset HealthCare HTML viewer has now been added to the Community view in the Dorset Care Record, enhancing practitioners information about patients from a mental health perspective.
Emily Gadd, DHC project team manager, said this will benefit all DCR users, so for example, those in an acute setting or in local authorities, such as social workers as it will allow professionals to see a summary of the most recent activities of DHC’s patients. Continue reading “DCR: Functionality Update”
The Dorset Care Record team has spent their volunteering day this year helping conserve one of our rarest heathland habitats. Equipped with gloves and tree clippers, the team spent the day at RSPB Arne harvesting fast-growing pine trees that can spread rapidly through the lowland health and gorse.
The team saw a sika deer, which have become quite common on the reserve, but despite scouring the skies failed to spot the white tailed eagle which was seen at Arne at the weekend after flying over from the Isle of Wight. Continue reading “Pine Pulling at RSPB Arne”
The Dorset Care Record Production environment will be unavailable from Saturday 25th September at 13:00 for any upgrade of the system. We are expecting the system to be available by 09:00 Sunday 26th September.
From 17:00 Friday 24th September until 09:00 Monday 27th September for the feeds into the DCR will be paused, therefore no updates to any records will occur during this time.