Clinicians, patient representatives, wider advocacy stakeholders and partners joined forces this week for a major workshop to take forward the Dorset Care Record (DCR) Citizen Portal. This was the first occasion for many to have their say on key issues around what should be within the Citizen Portal.
Here is our latest stakeholder letter about Dorset Care Record developments.
We wanted to update you on three areas of progress:
· New records that are coming on stream
· Changes to consent
· Progress of the Citizens Portal
Staff from the Dorset Care Record team will be taking to the road in the run up to Christmas to carry out some testing of the brand. Representatives will be asking members of the public about their understanding of the Dorset Care Record, which is bringing together electronically health and social care records across the county.
Continue reading “Out on the road with the Dorset Care Record”
Dorset Care Record at the Festival of Learning
Week of 15th October
Dorset Care Record are pleased to be part of Dorset County Council’s Adult and Community Services Festival of Learning. The theme of this year’s event is Promoting Independence and Wellbeing. We are visiting Dorchester, Sturminster Newton, Wimborne, Ferndown and Christchurch throughout the week.
This week-long festival is for Adult and Community Services staff to access learning opportunities across Dorset. These bitesize sessions will ensure that staff are kept up to date with work undertaken by colleagues and external partners:
The Dorset Care Record sessions give an overview and an update of new functionality. The benefits of one joined up electronic health and social care record include:
Attendees are also given information about how to request a Dorset Care Record account and complete the online training.
We are already hearing of the benefits of using the Dorset Care Record:
“The client did not give a diagnosis and only stated what medication they were on. The DCR showed me both the client’s diagnosis and that the client had a history of falls, from the GP records. We concluded that the client was more suitable for the community rehab team service in their local area more than social care occupational therapy as they would be able to advise on falls prevention and assess the client’s mobility.”
Claire Collett DCC Occupational Therapist
“It is a great at informing me of who is involved with an individual, reducing time that I would previously have spent trying to phone around and get hold of people to try and ascertain who is involved.”
Hayley Guille DCC Assessment Support Co-Ordinator
More than 100 health and social care professionals have signed up to the Dorset Care Record (DCR), marking a milestone for the project which aims to create a comprehensive and up to date record for every resident having treatment in the county.
Continue reading “First 100 health and social care professionals sign up to the Dorset Care Record”
Dorset County Council Continuing Healthcare Advisor Jonathan Williams is the 100th health and social care professional to complete the training for the Dorset Care Record, including the mandatory modules around consent and security.
Mr Williams, who joined six months ago from neighbouring Somerset County Council, is involved in improving how health and social care work together for people across the county.
Speaking about how the DCR will make a difference, he further said: ‘The DCR will ensure people get the right support at the right time. This should really help to ensure that people – particularly those with intense, complex and unpredictable health needs – get the help that’s needed.
‘It should make decision making far more straightforward as we will be able to discern each circumstance more easily across records, particularly where people are applying for CHC (Continuing Health Care).
‘The DCR is extremely important as it will reduce duplication of efforts and make sure the right information is seen by the right people at the right time.’
Over the last few months, we’ve collected a range of quotes from case studies, videos and news releases from representatives across the Dorset Care Record partnership:
Alerts and encounters from Dorset County Hospital (DCH) have this week been added to the Dorset Care Record (DCR).
Please follow the link to the DCR Interoperability case study published by Interopen.
A Wessex bid, including Dorset has been chosen as one of the three areas in the UK to become a Local Health and Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE).