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Liz Eaton, PA to a consultant psychiatrist at Dorset HealthCare

Dorset Care Record – Helping people with learning difficulties

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Information gleaned from the Dorset Care Record is helping provide consultant psychiatrists treating patients with learning difficulties with real time additional information that they might have to wait hours or even days for.

Liz Eaton, PA to a consultant psychiatrist, said she goes to the Dorset Care Record as the first port of call to look for blood test results and other GP investigations, such as heart rates and whether the patient is smoking or drinking.

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Community pharmacies to join the Dorset Care Record

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Up to 150 community pharmacies across the county are to be given access to health and social care records held within the Dorset Care Record (DCR)

This will give them up to date records in a transparent and easy to understand way – particularly important in this current time.

Pharmacies are the first sector outside the acute and community hospital and social care settings to be given access to the DCR and the move has been fast-tracked due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Natalie Harper, Dorset County Hospital Respiratory Nurse Consultant

Dorset Care Record – Helping safeguard vulnerable patients and saving money

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Understanding the medications that members of the public are taking and also potentially safeguarding vulnerable patients have been two areas where the Dorset Care Record has helped a Respiratory Nurse Consultant.

Natalie Harper has been working at Dorset County Hospital for the past 11 years, and prior to this, she worked in primary care for nearly two decades – both in the county and further afield.

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DCR – Helping with Reablement checks following discharge from hospital

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Dorset Council adult access team members are using the Dorset Care Record while carrying out “91 Day Reviews”.

These telephone reviews are undertaken 91 days after a person has started having reablement care at home following discharge from hospital. They are a type of welfare check to see if they are still living at home and managing around the house, and have not returned to hospital or moved into a care home.

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Dr Craig Wakeham – A DCR Appreciation

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Our Working Group yesterday held a minute’s silence for Dr Craig Wakeham, the Chief Clinical Commissioning Officer at NHS Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group, who passed away on Saturday 18 April 2020, aged 59. Craig had tested positive for COVID-19.

We were lucky enough to have the pleasure of working with Craig over the lifetime of the DCR and for some of us, many more years. Craig was one of our Programme Board members and regularly met the team during monthly meetings which were often followed by CCIO sessions at Upton House, Poole.

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The DCR – Helping Occupational Therapists and those working with the disabled

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Occupational Therapist Assistant (OTA) Jeremy Streets believes that the Dorset Care Record will provide real support for people with disabilities.

Jeremy, who currently works for Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council (BCP) in the Boscombe/Southbourne area, leads on registering people with disabilities.

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Feedback Friday: How training has helped a local authority Occupational Therapist

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It’s always great to receive positive feedback on how training can enhance confidence. Here’s some comments from Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Occupational Therapist Jeremy:

“The reason for me doing the course is to make use of DCR at work, where it will save a lot of time waiting for responses from queries to GP surgeries.

“In this respect, I must be able to use it and understand everything about data protection and information sharing.

“This course provided an excellent start on which to base my use in practice, so I don’t contravene any laws, upset patients or get into serious trouble.”

Full case study coming soon.

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Dorset Care Record provides feeds to Yeovil Hospital staff dealing with Coronavirus

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Clinicians and staff working on Coronavirus patients at Yeovil District Hospital (YDH) are for the first time receiving feeds from the Dorset Care Record (DCR).

Until now, Yeovil – which takes 30-40 per cent of their emergency admissions from Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) patients – has been unable to access the DCR.

But fast-tracked work due to the spread of the virus means that up to 150 clinicians and staff will now be able to read the GP records of Dorset patients they are providing care for, resulting in less wasted time. In the past, YDH clinicians had to ring Dorset GPs to gather this information.

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