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Dorset Council

Dorset Council adult alerts added to the Dorset Care Record

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Adult alerts from Dorset Council have been added to the Dorset Care Record (DCR) from today.

The new feed will allow GPs and other health professionals to know whether adult social care is involved with a specific patient and in what circumstance, based upon the alert that is now available in the system.

Sharing this type of information can also enable early interventions to prevent the escalation of risk, coordinate effective and efficient responses across our health and social care partnership and prevent abuse and harm that may increase the need for care and support. Continue reading “Dorset Council adult alerts added to the Dorset Care Record” →

Dorset County Hospital

Additional alerts from DCH available in the DCR

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Nearly 70 alerts have been added to the Dorset Care Record this week by one of our key health partners, Dorset County Hospital (DCH). The additional alerts, which have been added to an existing feed, include allergy alert types, such as hay fever, latex, house dust, bees and wasps and adhesives, to help increase awareness among clinicians.

Other alerts that have been added include those around specific medical conditions, including possible cases of tuberculosis and previous pressure ulcer alerts, Munchausen syndrome and mental disorders, child safeguarding and social alerts, such as patient notes, armed forces information and patients who have multiple aliases.

The additional alerts mean that DCH now provides nearly 100 different alerts into the shared care record.

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Piloting myDCR – Our Patient Portal: Mark’s story

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Since the summer we have been piloting our patient portal, myDCR, involving more than 200 residents across Dorset, trialling different elements with specific patients. In our final case study of the year, Mark talks about how he has found myDCR and improvements he’d like to see.

Mark first heard about myDCR via an email invite to sign up from his Dorset County Hospital clinician Rebecca, who works at the Dorchester Diabetes Centre.

He was invited to trial the sharing of images and photographs, sent by the podiatry clinic, and found the initial sign-up process was simple to access from the link supplied in the invitation email. Continue reading “Piloting myDCR – Our Patient Portal: Mark’s story” →

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New webinar: Shared Care Records – Top tips for Benefits Realisation Management

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We are delighted to welcome Gareth Curt, NHS England Shared Care Records Programme Benefits Analyst, who will lead our next webinar on Wednesday 18 January from 1pm.

His focus will be around the purpose of Benefits Realisation Management (BRM) and the different roles we all play in delivering effective change. They will explore how BRM is applied  against reality, discussing the challenges faced and top tips for doing BRM well. By the end of the session, attendees will hopefully have a better understanding of the value of a benefits-led approach in helping create and drive stories for change.

For invite, please contact Tony McDougal, DCR Communications and Engagement Manager – tony.mcdougal@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk

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Andy Cowling, DCR head of service

Dorset Care Record – Review of the Year 2022

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In our final think-piece of 2022, our Head of Service Andy Cowling looks back at some of the success stories of the past year and ahead to some of the interoperability plans to further enhance the Dorset Care Record

I can’t believe that it has been 12 months since I was asked to write the last one of these – time certainly flies in the world of the Dorset Care Record (DCR).

First off, let’s look at some of our key statistics for the year:

  1. We have increased our average daily uses from 2,000 to over 3,000 which shows a significant 50% improvement
  2. We have generated over £2.7m in non-cash releasing benefits for the Dorset system
  3. We have managed to surpass a major milestone in training over 5,000 health and social care professionals
  4. We have delivered nine pilots, involving real patients, for our patient portal myDCR.

These statistics will grab the headlines and myself and the team are rightly proud of them but they don’t tell the whole story – just the end results of all of the hard work that the PMO, Orion Health and our partners put into the programme every day. Continue reading “Dorset Care Record – Review of the Year 2022” →

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Automatic publishing of documents available through DCR

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We have over the weekend successfully introduced several new features into the Dorset Care Record:

Automatic publishing of documents.

Documents such as inpatient discharge summaries and clinical letters can now be automatically made available to patients in myDCR following the release 9 deployment.  This is important as it is one of the key enablers for rolling out the patient portal (myDCR) to a wider audience.  After the release, the acute hospitals will be able to decide which documents can be published automatically.  It is anticipated that in the first instance, this will include clinic letters for diabetes and rheumatology and results for cancer patients using the remote monitoring service and inpatient discharge summaries. Continue reading “Automatic publishing of documents available through DCR” →

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Dorset Care Record viewed over 1.5m times by health and care professionals

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The Dorset Care Record (DCR) has now been viewed more than 1.5 million times by health and care staff, helping them provide faster, safer, and more effective care across the county.

This is a major milestone in the development of the Dorset Care Record, which was introduced in April 2018 to enhance communication between care professionals across Dorset.

November’s figures were the highest so far with 92,624 patient records accessed and 87,952 logins, representing an 8% monthly rise. Over the last 12 months, there has been a 66% rise in use of the DCR. Continue reading “Dorset Care Record viewed over 1.5m times by health and care professionals” →

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Collecting litter along the Jurassic Coast – Our volunteering day

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Members of the Dorset Care Record (DCR) and Wessex Care Record (WCR) teams provided a helping hand for nature recently, spending time litter picking on the Jurassic Coast.

The dozen staff joined the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre manager Ali Ferris to comb through debris washed up on the beach by the week’s storms, finding wooden pallets, washed up flood defence debris, tyre inners, rope netting, plastics and microbeads. Continue reading “Collecting litter along the Jurassic Coast – Our volunteering day” →

Beckly Jupp, UHD Stroke Consultant

DCR – Providing a full picture for clinicians treating stroke patients

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Becky Jupp joined University Hospitals Dorset in January 2010 as a consultant physician, specialising in stroke and geriatric medicine – in particular patients who had suffered suspected transient ischaemic attacks – a mini stroke caused by temporary disruption in the blood supply to the brain.

Although she has only been using the Dorset Care Record (DCR) for a few months, she finds it extremely useful in clinic as the shared care record often has a fuller patient picture than the GP notes. Patients coming to clinic often are unsure of past and present medications and having a full picture of their history is particularly useful, especially if it’s necessary to alter the medication. Continue reading “DCR – Providing a full picture for clinicians treating stroke patients” →