Adult alerts from Dorset Council have been added to the Dorset Care Record (DCR) from today.
The new feed will allow GPs and other health professionals to know whether adult social care is involved with a specific patient and in what circumstance, based upon the alert that is now available in the system.
Sharing this type of information can also enable early interventions to prevent the escalation of risk, coordinate effective and efficient responses across our health and social care partnership and prevent abuse and harm that may increase the need for care and support.
Among the type of alerts being shared are:
- Details of any allergies
- Serious communicable disease
- Potential injury risk from the home environment
- Adults’ warning
- Missing persons
- Trading standards – client susceptible/subject to financial abuse
- Safeguarding alerts
- Firearms
- History of violence from service user
- Risk of injury from animals/pets
We will continue to work closely with Dorset Council to add their relationships and care packages into the DCR in the months ahead.
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