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The Festival of Learning

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:

  • An ability to understand involvement across services and organisations
  • Better access to information to inform decision making and assessment work
  • Time saved making phone calls for information
  • Provide a better experience for service users

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

 

 

Jonathan Williams from Dorset Council

Our 100th user – Jonathan Williams, Dorset County Council Continuing Healthcare Advisor

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.’