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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” →

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Dorset Care Record Stakeholder Update – November 2022

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Welcome to our latest stakeholder update about progress of the Dorset Care record and our new patient portal, myDCR.

1        Additional information in our shared care record

Adult alerts from Dorset Council are being added shortly to the Dorset Care Record. The new feed will allow GPs 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 response across our health and social care partnership and prevent abuse and harm that may increase the need for care and support.

We have also added a number of new document types to DCR from Dorchester County Hospital (DCH) – these include documents from Maternity, Cancer MDT and very recently pre-op assessments.

2        Ringwood medical practice supplying patient information

Clinicians and social care staff can now access GP data though our shared care record from the Ringwood Medical Practice in Hampshire. The GP practice, part of the Avon Valley Primary Care Network, is the first cross-border surgery to provide this information. To find out more about cross-border work with GP practices go to Ringwood Medical Practice supplies patient information to the Dorset Care Record – Dorset Care Record (dorsetcouncil.gov.uk)

We are working with other non-Dorset GP practices and hope to have more information soon. Continue reading “Dorset Care Record Stakeholder Update – November 2022” →

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Ringwood Medical Practice supplies patient information to the Dorset Care Record

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Clinicians at University Hospitals Dorset are now able to access GP data through the Dorset Care Record from the Ringwood Medical Practice in Hampshire. The GP practice, part of the Avon Valley Primary Care Network, is the first cross-border surgery to provide this information.
As well as covering Ringwood, the practice also takes patients from parts of the New Forest, including the surroundings villages of Ibsley, Poulner and Hightown, as well as patients living in the Dorset villages of Ashley Heath and St Leonards.
We are continuing to work with other cross-border GP practices including the Coastal Medical Partnership at New Milton and surgeries on the Wiltshire/Dorset border, such as Sixpenny Handley on the Cranborne Chase to ensure that clinicians based in Dorset can see all of the information about their patients held by GPs in different counties.
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Dorset Care Record highly commended in HTN Efficiency Savings award  

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Delivery of efficiency savings along with benefits in patient experience, care and safety led the Dorset Care Record to be highly commended in the Health Tech Efficiency Savings of the Year award. Benefits found include the delivery of more than £2m in efficiency savings to its health and social care partners in 2021/2, with savings increasing over time as more data was added, making it easier for users to find information without logging into other systems or making enquiries. Continue reading “Dorset Care Record highly commended in HTN Efficiency Savings award  “ →

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Benefits work nets Dorset Care Record a place in the final of national awards competition

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Delivery of efficiency savings along with benefits in patient experience, care and safety has led the Dorset Care Record to be shortlisted for a national award. The shared care record is through to the Health Tech Efficiency Savings of the Year award.

Benefits found include the delivery of just over £2m in efficiency savings to its health and social care partners in 2021-2, with efficiency savings increasing over time as more data was added, making it easier for users to find information without logging into other systems or making enquiries.

The DCR team has consolidated benefits into 5 areas – time saving, printing and paper reduction, improved patient safety, improved patient care and improved patient experience. Continue reading “Benefits work nets Dorset Care Record a place in the final of national awards competition” →

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Forthcoming webinar – The Somerset Shared Care Record (SIDeR): Wednesday 28 September 2-3pm

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We are delighted to be hosting our next webinar on Wednesday 28 September from 2-3pm, when speakers from the Somerset Integrated Digital e-Record (SIDeR) will be joining us. (SIDeR) is a clinically led, digitally enabled programme that aims to make the right information available to the right clinician at the right time.

The panel of  Dr Justin Harrington, Chief Clinical Information Officer and Associate Clinical Director Somerset ICB, Jess Brown, digital transformation officer (projects and comms) and Tiff Hodkinson, Chief Operating Officer at Black Pear software, will talk through the unique set up of the SIDeR Shared Care Record that uses FHIR endpoints to gather and display real time information from providers, including social care, for the purposes of direct care. Continue reading “Forthcoming webinar – The Somerset Shared Care Record (SIDeR): Wednesday 28 September 2-3pm” →

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Pharmacies and the Dorset Care Record

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The Pharmaceutical Journal, the trade title for the pharmacy sector, has this week run a story on when will community pharmacies get access to patient records.

In its article, it highlighted how Dorset Local Pharmaceutical Committee (Dorset LPC) was one of a handful or organisations in England, to have been given access: “A handful of local areas are leading the way – or making steady progress – on enabling pharmacy access to a share care records system, with LPC’s telling the PJ that some pharmacies now “couldn’t survive without it.” Continue reading “Pharmacies and the Dorset Care Record” →

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Briefing Dorset Council’s Chief Executive Matt Prosser

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The Dorset Care Record team last week hosted Dorset Council’s Chief Executive Matt Prosser, briefing him of developments around our shared care record and pilot patient record.

He was given a demonstration of the DCR in the test environment with Test manager Georgina Hulbert running through its functionality with focus on benefits for a council employee. Our business analyst Sam Belhomme then talked about the myDCR patient pilots and its functionality, showcasing a video showing how it will empower patients to have a better understanding of their health and care.

This was followed by a general discussion on the cross-Dorset working and the nature of our blended team, with a focus on our benefits work and DC’s performance across the DCR Partnership. Continue reading “Briefing Dorset Council’s Chief Executive Matt Prosser” →