Orion Health has this week published an updated digital Dorset Care Record case study. The online study is divided into five sections:
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Dorset Council goes live with adult referrals in the Dorset Care Record
Adult referrals from Dorset Council (DC) have this week been added to the Dorset Care Record, expanding the amount of social care information available.
The move will be particularly beneficial to other health professionals, who will be able to see details of when older people, informal carers or younger adults with learning difficulties, visual impairment or physical impairment have been referred.
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Additional DCR information making a difference for NHS Health and Social Care Coordinator
Finding information swiftly through the Dorset Care Record is helping a Dorset HealthCare worker, as it provides vital, accurate information about patient care and saves time for busy health professionals, GP’s and acute hospital staff.
Cathy Hopkins has been working at the Mid-Dorset hub in Dorchester for the past two years as a health and social care coordinator after 5 years working in human resources at the then Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals. Continue reading “Additional DCR information making a difference for NHS Health and Social Care Coordinator”
Community physical health data to be used in the Dorset Care Record
Community physical health data is to be used in in the Dorset Care Record (DCR) to help provide a better service for patients.
Physical health data includes information from community hospital inpatient stays, therapy services and district nursing alongside many other services that use SystmOne.
All the additions are in line with the DCR’s aim to bring all health details together so medical and social care staff can give the best possible care.
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From an NHS project job to remote Sierra Leone; an unexpected but incredible development journey
Seven years ago, our Programme Director Astrid Fairclough was seconded to the then Department of Health to lead the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) programme. Working closely with NHS Digital, the team delivered world leading statistics about FGM and the FGM Information Sharing System. Last year, with the support of a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust fellowship, Astrid travelled to Kenya, Egypt, Sierra Leone and Australia to look at the personal and emotional side to FGM. The report was published last week, and Astrid is now embarking on the next stage of her work – sharing her findings with colleagues across the NHS and those working to End FGM.
I’ve been lucky enough to have made a career in the NHS, but never when I joined my local PCT straight after school did I imagine that some 15 years later, my employer would supported me to complete an international research Fellowship. But last year, I travelled to Kenya, Egypt, Sierra Leone and then Australia, and I have just published my report recommending how we can improve how we tackle female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UK.
Within this article, I’d like to both share a little about the research and also share about the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, the remarkable organisation who gave me a grant to complete this opportunity.
Greater integrated care across Dorset as more feeds from acute hospitals enter the Dorset Care Record
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 came on stream this week. Allergy information from University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust (formerly Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals (RBCH) and Poole Hospital (PH) will be available to health and social care professionals using the DCR.
It will mean that allergy details from across all of the county’s acute hospitals will be in place. This will be useful for hospital teams who will be able to prescribe medications more safely to patients
University Hospitals Dorset have also added clinic letters into the DCR as well as electronic inpatient and emergency discharge summaries, which will provide clear advice to GPs and social care teams helping to provide ongoing care to patients.
IT Case Study: Community pharmacies accessing the Dorset Care Record system
Community pharmacy contractors in Dorset are connecting to health and social care records held within the Dorset Care Record (DCR), a type of shared care record delivered as part of the Local Health and Care Record (LHCR).
Background
Primary care professionals, including community pharmacists, have been creating electronic records of their interactions with patients for many years. Previous consideration was given to the NHS creating a national comprehensive records system, collating information from different types of care settings, but the NHS Long Term Plan changed the focus to continuing and expanding the LHCR projects being undertaken across England.
Shared care records pull together information on a patient from several sources, such as GP and hospital records, so they contain extra information compared to the NHS Summary Care Record. In time it is hoped that pharmacy systems may be able to display medicines information from shared care records and more professionals across multiple care settings will be able to share their patient records held in their clinical systems via shared care records.
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Dorset Care Record: Allowing colleagues to work more efficiently
Over the past few months, usage of the Dorset Care Record (DCR) at Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council has been growing strongly. We caught up with Carol Bensley, BCP Council Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) business support officer, who accessed the highest number of records across the DCR partnership last month.
Carol is a firm advocate of the DCR: “I absolutely love using DCR; it makes my job so much easier and allows me and my colleagues to work more efficiently. Whether that’s checking which ward a patient is on in hospital, or even just double checking a home address for someone who is currently unknown to BCP – to ensure that they qualify for the services available. Continue reading “Dorset Care Record: Allowing colleagues to work more efficiently”
FAQs for Community Pharmacies
As part of our ongoing engagement with community pharmacies, we have developed a Frequently Asked Questions sheet which is available on the Dorset Local Pharmaceutical Committee (LPC) website.
Community pharmacies are a key area of expansion for the Dorset Care Record this autumn and we have been working with the key industry body the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) to increase the number of pharmacies using the DCR. Continue reading “FAQs for Community Pharmacies”
Updated Video Infographic – Autumn 2020
We’ve updated our video infographic highlighting our latest developments over the past three months. Changes include:
- A rise in the number of records accessed to more than 13,000 per month
- A jump in the number of primary care (GP items of information) being accessed to 6,000+/month
- An increase in the number of radiology and pathology reports viewed by health and social care professionals to more than 3,000 per month
- More than 11,000 log-ins by care providers over the past month
You can access this on our You Tube channel https://youtu.be/t8NSabk1zqY