One of our local authority partners, Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council (BCP), has today introduced Single Sign On for staff accessing Dorset Care Record (DCR) information.
All current DCR users who have access to Mosaic (adult services system) have – since earlier this spring – been able to send demographic information as an electronic feed into the DCR.
Now, they will be able to go straight into the DCR system at a touch of a button. Launching DCR with user and person context will save professionals time, with one click getting to the relevant record. It 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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Last month, more than 10,000 records were accessed across the country by partners and 60 trained BCP staff accessed more than 1,800 of these. At present, there are 151 staff who are able to log-in to the DCR.
Staff who have used the DCR recently say it is helping with their day to day work. Jeremy Streets, BCP Occupational Therapist Assistant (OTS), says the DCR will enable OTS’s to have a greater understanding of their patients medical history.
“People come to us often with vague references about some spinal problems or a memory issue or a bit of a heart condition. We can now – through seeing the medical records of their conditions – have a better understanding of what is in front of us.”
Joss Bowen, business support officer with BCP’s Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) team, has been using the DCR for the past two years: “Having the DCR has been so useful – we can now find out so much more. We need to continually plan for people who are leaving hospital and now it is so much easier as we have the information available.
“It is also useful for us, as part of our checks to see if people have been admitted into hospital, and where they are. Having information at our fingertips is really beneficial,” she added.
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