Come and hear from our new Training Manager Catherine Snook on how she is introducing technology to train our partners and Communications and Engagement manager Tony McDougal about the establishment of user groups to test pilot plans for our new citizen portal (My Dorset Care Record), plus the exceptional growth of people using the Dorset Care Record over the past six months due in part to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Orion Senior Marketing Manager Katy Brooks writes about how sharing patient data can support direct care, highlighting the work being carried out with the Northern Ireland Electronic Care Record and the North of Scotland Care Portal. Orion Health are the technical partner of the Dorset Care Record.
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Dr Rob Willington is a consultant in Acute Medicine at the RBCH. In this 20 minute length video, Rob argues that we should embrace the change that comes with the Dorset Care Record, which is a much better alternative the current system of fragmented IT records and paper records.
In July 2019, we interviewed Peter Gill, DCR’s Senior Responsible owner. Here, he answers the following questions:
On the day the Dorset Care Record hit its 500th user, HTN spoke with Tony McDougal from Dorset Council about the progress of the Dorset Care Record, what has gone well and what is next in the project. You can read the original article on the HTN website or continue reading here…
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Diane, a sister at the Minor Injuries Unit at Swanage Hospital is the Dorset Care Record’s 500th live user. In this video clip she talks about the benefits of having a bigger overview of patient care.
More than 500 health and social care professionals have signed up to the Dorset Care Record (DCR), marking a milestone for the project which aims to create a comprehensive and up to date record for every person having treatment in the county.
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Anu Dhir is a GP working in Poole, In this short video he explains how the Dorset Care Record will be hugely beneficial for him.
Here’s a good example from Dorset Council showing how the Dorset Care Record helps social care staff on a daily basis: “This client has a number of health issues, so I was looking up which teams were involved with her and to check if she had been referred to the Memory Assessment Service. I found out that she was being seen in the diabetic foot clinic, she had visits from the District Nurses to dress her legs and that she had bloods taken to investigate her memory but no referral had been made to the memory assessment service or community mental health team as yet.
There was an understandable healthy degree of scepticism at last week’s Digital Healthcare Show at London’s Excel centre – an issue recognised by the new Chief Executive Officer of NHS Digital (NHSX) Matthew Gould.
Continue reading “Our Communications Officer Tony reflects on London’s Digital Healthcare Show”