Having blood test results and clinical correspondence in one place at a touch of a button is helping boost patient care for Poole oncologist Dr Mike Bayne.
Dr Bayne, has been a consultant oncologist in Poole since 2005 specialising in lung cancer, radiotherapy for haematological malignancy and is chair of the Dorset Neuroendocrine MDT. Continue reading “Bridging the county – how the DCR is enhancing patient management for Poole oncologist”
Osteoporosis and Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) lead nurse practitioner at Yeovil District Hospital Clare Cockill is an enthusiastic user of the Dorset Care Record.
Clare, who has practised at Yeovil since 2006, said that in an average year Yeovil FLS deals with around 1500 new patients with fragility fractures, many of them elderly due to the demographic nature of the population in north Dorset and south Somerset. Continue reading “Community information through the DCR providing a lifeline for bone specialists”
We recently sent out a questionnaire to around 30 users asking how our record helps them and how it is making a difference to their working lives and helping patients: Continue reading “Benefits of using the Dorset Care Record explored”
Health and social care professionals using the Dorset Care Record are now receiving GP data in a different way that is in-line with GP Connect standards.
The system has replaced the traditional Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG) system. It aims to support better clinical care by opening up information and data held within GP practice IT systems for use across health and social care. Continue reading “Better, more convenient patient care – Dorset Care Record introduces new system for primary care information”
Our team have been working closely and at pace with Wessex Care Records and Orion Health to introduce a GP Connect standard to replace the current MIG primary care system. Ian Haywood, Wessex Care Records’ business analyst talks about some of the benefits associated with the changes in our latest blog.
Having access to Primary Care (GP) data is a significant part of why the DCR is so useful to clinicians. Since its inception, the DCR has accessed GP information via an interface provided by Healthcare Gateway, known as the MIG, and this has been hugely successful in providing a level of information previously inaccessible to many Health and Social care clinicians.
In recent years NHS Digital, and with the creation and support of NHSX, has pushed the interoperability agenda further, with a huge amount of focus on better enabling primary care information to be shared with other NHS and Social Care organisations to support direct care. Continue reading “Moving to GP Connect”
Patient safety in one of the region’s largest eye units is being enhanced thanks to additional information being picked up by consultants from the Dorset Care Record.
Consultant ophthalmologist Cath Marsh has been an eye consultant at the University Hospitals Dorset since 2003, specialising in paediatric ophthalmology and oculoplastics (eye plastic surgery). She is one of the consultants in charge of the Eye Emergency department, which in most years sees around 20,000 visitors a year. Continue reading “Keeping an eye on the Dorset Care Record”
We continue to see a rise in use of the Dorset Care Record – both in terms of numbers of patient records viewed and health and social care professionals trained to use the system.
Latest figures for February show that 19,008 records were viewed during the previous month, a rise of 1% on December’s figures. The number of pathology and radiology reports viewed also reached a record high of 4,676 during January. Continue reading “February Update – Ongoing growth for the Dorset Care Record”
Our training manager Catherine Snook highlights the digital changes introduced to make our information more relevant and easier to use
The importance of accessible, digital training content has never been greater than it is today. Here at the Dorset Care Record we have proactively reacted to the Covid-19 pandemic and used this opportunity to create newly revised online training content which is more relevant and accessible than ever before. What’s more, we now also provide a platter of online learning options to support our partner organisations, all of which can be accessed by the click of a button! Continue reading “Digital Training during the Covid Pandemic”
In our final thought piece of the year, our Programme Manager Andy Cowling highlights the progress made by partners across the Dorset Care Record over the past 12 months and looks at some of the exciting initiatives ahead.
It has been a really exciting and productive year for the Dorset Care Record programme with our component number rising to 47 and a number of major releases completed successfully through 2020. We have seen meaningful contributions from all our partners and one partner completing all their deliverables. We have also introduced single sign on functionality for many of our users, resulting in a huge increase in people using the system.
What has been especially pleasing to see is that the partners, Orion Health and the DCR project management office have been able to form strong and effective working relationships that has meant communication is better than ever and it really feels like a team.
Mental health records from Dorset HealthCare are for the first time feeding into the Dorset Care Record (DCR).
It means that mental health and community health data have now joined hospitals, GPs and social care in both seeing a view only summary and contributing data.
Continue reading “First mental health records from Dorset HealthCare enter the Dorset Care Record”