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GP Connect – Coming soon to the Dorset Care Record

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Access to primary care (GP data) is a huge part of why the Dorset Care Record is so important to health and social care users. Since we began nearly three years ago, the DCR has accessed GP information through the Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG) – a secure technology which enables the two-way exchange of patient information.

NHS Digital has been keen to push the interoperability agenda further, and has created GP Connect standards, ensuring better enabling primary care information can be shared between the NHS and local authorities. Continue reading “GP Connect – Coming soon to the Dorset Care Record” →

Update on new feeds in the Dorset Care Record

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Over the past few months, a number of new feeds have entered the Dorset Care Record (DCR). At the end of last year, the first mental health records from Dorset HealthCare were made available to health and social care professionals.

Demographic information, which includes the name, date of birth, address, next of kin, NHS number and ethnicity of Dorset residents, along with inpatient and outpatient details were included in the package. Continue reading “Update on new feeds in the Dorset Care Record” →

Community physical health data to come on line soon

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Community physical health data is to be used in in the Dorset Care Record (DCR) to help provide a better service for patients.

Physical health data includes information from community hospital inpatient stays, therapy services and district nursing alongside many other services that use SystmOne.

All the additions are in line with the DCR’s aim to bring all health details together so medical and social care staff can give the best possible care.

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New feeds added to the Dorset Care Record

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We’ve added a range of new feeds to the Dorset Care Record (DCR) over the past month with the latest tranche of health and social care records successfully incorporated this week.

Allergy information from University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust (formerly Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals (RBCH) and Poole Hospital (PH) are now available to health and social care professionals using the DCR.

It will mean that allergy details from across all of the county’s acute hospitals will be in place. This will be useful for hospital teams who will be able to prescribe medications more safely to patients

University Hospitals Dorset have also added clinic letters into the DCR as well as electronic inpatient and emergency discharge summaries, which will provide clear advice to GPs and social care teams helping to provide ongoing care to patients.

The new feeds from the acute hospitals follows the successful introduction of children’s demographics information from Dorset Council, meaning that all of the local authority’s adult and children’s records are now available through the DCR.

Peter Gill, Senior Reporting Officer for the DCR and Director of Informatics at University Hospitals Dorset said the new feeds were evidence of growing integrated care across the county.

“I’m really pleased with the additional feeds entering the DCR. Greater integration across our health and social care settings brings coordinated and safer care for people of Dorset and a greater understanding among professionals of the treatment required for them. Data really does save lives.”

Orion Health provides the software that powers the DCR. Gary Birks, Orion Health General Manager for Great Britain and Ireland, also commented on this expansion of the information available:

“Since its initial go-live in 2018, the DCR has steadily built out the information available within it and become increasingly useful to its users. This is reflected in the growth from 2,200 records accessed in July 2019 to over 14,000 last month. We look forward to supporting the DCR’s busy roadmap of upcoming additions to data and functionality, all in the interest of improved patient care.”

At present, nearly 2,000 trained health and social care professionals across the partnership, which includes the county’s three acute hospitals, Dorset HealthCare, Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group and the two local authorities, can use the DCR. All the county’s GP practices are connected to the DCR.

Earlier this year, in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic, we enabled Yeovil District Hospital in Somerset and community pharmacists in Dorset to have access to the DCR.

The ambition is to grow to around 7,000 active users as the phased rollout progresses.

 

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Dorset Care Record Guide for Potential new Health and Social Care Users

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This guide has been produced by the PMO team to help staff with any questions they might have about the Dorset Care Record. It is available also in word format. For further information please contact our Communications and Engagement Manager Tony McDougal – tony.mcdougal@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk (Tel: 01305 224831) Continue reading “Dorset Care Record Guide for Potential new Health and Social Care Users” →

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Updated training – Information Sharing and Security Module

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We have now modified our “Information Sharing and Security” mandatory module to try and make it less burdensome for health and social care professionals.

Although, it doesn’t technically reduce the content of the module, it does cut the number of slides by around a dozen in the menu. It also provides a different, interactive way to deliver some of the content, which may help those taking part in the training.

The action follows criticism and a certain reluctance to undertake the mandatory training module.

Dorset Care Record training modules can be found on the DCR page of Dorset Learning On Line.

Demographics feed from Dorset Council adults services in the DCR

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Dorset Council has this week become the first local authority to send demographic information as an electronic feed into the Dorset Care Record (DCR)

For the first time, information from the adults Mosaic system will feed in to the DCR, marking a major technical and organisational milestone for the health and social care record.

It will mean that local authority staff will be able to put their local case number in to the DCR rather than an NHS number to find their client and have access to personal emergency contacts.

Staff who have completed the mandatory training will also be able to , from Monday (9 March), through Single Sign On, go straight from the Mosaic system in to the DCR at a touch of a tab.

Launching DCR with user and person context will safe professionals time with one click getting to the relevant record.

These additions will ensure that people will have a safe and slick journey through the service and will only have to “tell their story once.”

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Mandatory Training – An Overview

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DCR is continually updating and adding training modules for users.

Currently there are nine modules:-

Information Sharing and Security (mandatory)

Introduction

Navigation

Radiology, Pathology and Referrals

Allergies

Discharge Medications

Collaborative Worklists

Maternity Pathway – Midwives

Maternity Pathway – Admin

 

ONLY THE INFORMATION SHARING AND SECURITY MODULE IS MANDATORY.  This is not a Data Protection (DP) and Information Governance (IG) module, although it does touch on both but only as a reminder to your organisation’s DP and IG training.

Accessing the DCR allows personal data from all the DCR partners to be viewed by users. The purpose of this mandatory module is:-

  • To understand the legal responsibilities of viewing records on DCR
  • To understand user responsibility to protect information particularly as the personal data is from different organisations
  • To understand how to record an information sharing discussion – mandatory training is one of the stipulations from the Information Commissioners Officer which enabled DCR to move away from a consent model
  • To understand the opt out process
  • To understand the security measures in place to protect personal data in the DCR

 

Access to the DCR is given on successful completion of the mandatory training assessment.

The training is on-line for the most part but facilitated e learning can be arranged from time to time to enable staff to move away from their workplace to undertake the training.

It is difficult to give an exact time for the duration of the training as everyone is different but on average it takes approximately 45 minutes to complete the mandatory module.

When a training module is updated the DCR staff website is updated and an email is sent out to all existing users to enable them to update their training where necessary.

 

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