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Test manager Vinay Gunwant

Functionality, multiple systems and dealing with COVID-19: Our test manager’s view

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Our test manager Vinay Gunwant looks at some of the functionality linked to releases in the Dorset Care Record, highlights some of the issues posed in dealing with multiple systems and charts benefits to clinicians during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

I have been part of the Dorset Care Record (DCR) for the past four months and having been involved in the Gloucestershire shared care record (JUYI) I had a fair idea of the interoperability programmes and the potential issues and pitfalls that can affect the programme.

However, each programme has new stakeholders, different systems and suppliers and I felt it was important to get to know the personalities involved with the DCR and re-adjust to working smoothly with them.

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WCR team 2020

Wessex Care Record – Partnership working key to success

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Wessex Care Records (WCR) is one of the first Local Health and Care Records (LHCR) programmes in England. Its aim is to create an information-sharing environment to improve the patient and healthcare professional experience by joining up records and data and making them accessible for individual care to people across Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

Having recently completed its first year with the full team on board and hosted an annual review event for stakeholders, Clinical Lead, Dr Mark Kelsey and Programme Director, Astrid Fairclough reflect on the programme’s progress and future. Continue reading “Wessex Care Record – Partnership working key to success” →

Dr Will McConnell

How Single Sign On can make a difference in an acute hospital setting

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Respiratory consultant and general physician at Dorset County Hospital (DCH) William McConnell believes the Dorset Care Record will make a real difference for both healthcare professionals and patients.

Until now, Dr McConnell has felt frustrated by not having information at the touch of a button: “Unfortunately, we’re used to having to apologize to patients due to a lack of information that we have. Patients come expecting us to have all their records and are surprised when we say we don’t. This means that sometimes we don’t always have details, for example, of medications tried in the past.”

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Demographics feeds for adults and Single Sign On from Dorset Council enter the Dorset Care Record

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Dorset Council has this week become the first local authority to send demographic information as an electronic feed into the Dorset Care Record (DCR)

For the first time, information from the adults Mosaic system will feed in to the DCR, marking a major technical and organisational milestone for the health and social care record.

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Update: Steep rise in records accessed during January

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Dorset Care Record logo in green and blue

Handling and sharing sensitive records in the Dorset Care Record

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The Dorset Care Record is the first shared health and social care record in England to work through the complexities of handling and sharing sensitive records from NHS Digital’s Personal Demographic Service as marked on the NHS Spine.

These restricted records are used to protect the location of vulnerable patients in high risk categories, such as adoption and witness protection.

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Pre-admissions team find Dorset Care Record useful for accessing latest primary care information

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A team from the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospital (RBCH) are currently accessing more than a third of all the records opened by Dorset Care Record (DCR) health and social care professionals.

The Pre-admissions team have accessed around 15,000 of the 40,000 DCR examined so far, using it for every patient that they have contact with primary care to look at GP practice information.

They have found the DCR particularly useful to gain information for medications, allergies, blood pressure and other tests. Continue reading “Pre-admissions team find Dorset Care Record useful for accessing latest primary care information” →

Engagement at the Dorset Care Record

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We’ve created a short photo montage set to music showing some of our engagement work with partners, local and national stakeholders over recent months.

At the DCR we strongly believe that engagement is vital to help everyone understand how data can save lives, and we have now conducted more than 200 events across the county since our inception.

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Reasons why partner staff sign up to use the Dorset Care Record…

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Having the most up to date patient information, gaining access to data involving people who need emergency social interventions, ensuring patient safety and assessing patient’s fitness prior to surgery are all reasons why staff are signing up to use the Dorset Care Record (DCR).

As part of our ongoing engagement, we asked for partner staff comments about why they wanted to use the DCR, and many felt the system would help them complete an evidence-based assessment as well as helping facilitate a better client journey.

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What’s in the DCR and what’s coming

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The diagram shows the current feeds available in the Dorset Care Record and what is coming up in the next few weeks and months of 2020.

Latest developments include the successful integration of the collaborative worklists feed into the DCR. Collaborative Worklists enable a multidisciplinary approach to coordinated care. Patients, stratified by common characteristics, can be added to a list that is shared by one or more users – clinicians, administrators, case managers, or coordinators who have responsibility for reviewing, working and managing that patient population. Members of the team can view tasks associated with an individual patient or a list of tasks assigned to them across all patients they are engaging with. Collaborative worklists can improve care coordination across care teams.

We have also successfully configurated demographic feeds for local authorities, which will allow councils to submit their information into the DCR for the first time,  and Mosaic Single Sign On, which will allow trained staff a touch of a button to go straight into the DCR. At present, they have to move from one computer system to another.