People living in Dorset can look forward to enhanced coordinated care as further records are joined up within the Dorset Care Record (DCR).
The next tranche of health and social care records are coming on stream this week, which will mean that more than a quarter of the proposed data feeds within the Dorset Care Record have been successfully integrated.
For the first time, allergy information from Dorset County Hospital will be available, which, for example, will be useful for hospital teams who will be able to prescribe more safely.
Emergency Department encounter information from Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch (RBCH) and Poole Hospitals is also going live. It means that ED encounter information will be available county wide.
We are also making progress with one of our citizen portal pathways. Our maternity clinical portal is going live for midwives and health visitors. The transfer of pregnancy information between midwives and health visitor teams across the county will be much clearer and more efficient.
The Dorset Care Record already holds demographic data from the county’s three acute hospitals, including name, date of birth, address, next of kin, NHS number and ethnicity. It also contains GP records covering diagnosis, events, examinations, investigations, medication and allergies, procedures and risks. Information on inpatient, outpatient and admissions from Dorset County Hospital was also added last year.
Earlier this year, radiology from Dorset County Hospital (DCH), Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch (RBCH) and Poole Hospital (PH) and pathology and referrals from DCH were added.