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Benefits baseline established for the Dorset Care Record

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Research suggests that the Dorset Care Record (DCR) has enabled efficiency savings of more than £1.4m in the first nine months of the 2021/2 financial year.

As more feeds came into the DCR and usage grew, time savings rose from £333,109 in the first quarter of the year to £586,675 in quarter three, according to the analysis.

It is projected that a total of just under £2m will be saved during the financial year from time savings and consumables, based upon the end of December DCR unique user figures. Continue reading “Benefits baseline established for the Dorset Care Record” →

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How a community pharmacist uses the Dorset Care Record during the week

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Instant answers to queries is one of the most useful elements of the Dorset Care Record for community pharmacist David Rose.

David, who runs the pharmacy at Marnhull in North Dorset, has been the most extensive user of the shared care record: “The most useful thing is you get answers to queries and you can sort out the problem. Now, you don’t have to come back to it or chase for answers later if someone hasn’t got back to you.

“You can also look for answers to queries you have referred and no reply has been received, which happens fairly often. Continue reading “How a community pharmacist uses the Dorset Care Record during the week” →

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Webinar: Community Pharmacies and the Dorset Care Record

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Come and listen to Amanda Moores, Dorset Local Pharmaceutical Committee (Dorset LPC) chief officer and a community pharmacist David Rose, from Marnhull Pharmacy, in conversation with the Dorset Care Record’s communications and engagement officer Tony McDougal on how community pharmacists are using the shared care record.

Community pharmacies in Dorset have been able to access the Dorset Care Record for the past 18 months, which has prompted national interest.

Among the issues under the spotlight will be encouraging national chains to get involved, how can pharmacists get the most out of share care records and how can we encourage more community pharmacies to get involved.

The free webinar will take place on Monday 28 February from 12.30-1.15pm and is open to all.

To register –

Webinar – community pharmacy and the Dorset Care Record

 

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Ended care spells changes marks greater understanding of patients across community settings

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Clinical software firm TPP has made changes to its national estate allowing Dorset Care Record viewers to see a history of interactions between different services in community settings.

Until now, when a patient’s care spell is ended in a SystmOne community unit, the information was no longer shared and was not visible to clinicians using the DCR. For example, information around a patient who was under a physio team would no longer be shown when they were discharged. If they were previously admitted to Blandford Hospital, it wouldn’t show, but now it does.

The changes will benefit users who frequently look for community interactions, such as social care staff, who will now be able to see historic community spells. Continue reading “Ended care spells changes marks greater understanding of patients across community settings” →

Graph showing rise in use of Dorset Care Record

On track for 750,000 views in 2022

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We passed a number of milestone in January as the Dorset Care Record saw the largest number of records accessed (67,530) and log-ins ( 61,037).

For the first time, University Hospitals Dorset (covering Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch and Poole Hospitals) had over 40,000 log-ins to the system.

And practitioners at Dorset County Hospital accessed more than 10,000 patient records in January – another first.

Projections based on this month is there to be over 750,000 patient views this year, showing the increasing maturity of our record.

 

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Information Available in the Dorset Care Record

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Below is our updated table showing what information is currently available in the Dorset Care Record.

Testing for the pathology feeds for University Hospitals Dorset is shortly to get underway and we are hopeful this will be on stream later this spring.

We continue to work with our partners across health and social care to get more feeds in to the Dorset Care Record.

If you do have any questions, do contact us at dorsetcarerecord@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk

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Data for 2021 DCR logins

Facts and stats as the year draws to a close

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In what has been a hugely pressured year for health and care staff, we have been really pleased to see the Dorset Care Record grow in leaps and bounds over the past 12 months.

At the end of last year, there were 2,076 employees from across the Dorset Care Record partnership trained to use our shared care record. As the year closes, this figure has risen to 3,461 – a jump of 1,385. It means that nearly 4 people joined the DCR every day this year. Continue reading “Facts and stats as the year draws to a close” →

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Shared Care Records – Reviewing Progress and Planning Next Steps

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Our Programme Director Astrid Fairclough was part of a Health Service Journal (HSJ) webinar earlier this autumn, that looked at the progress of shared care records and plans for their future

Run in association with Orion Health, Astrid joined a small panel of experts from Doncaster and Derbyshire to consider the progress that has already been made on shared care records and – importantly – where we might go from here.

Convenor Claire Read said what was quickly clear was that, regardless of starting point, there had been consistent advances on shared care records in recent months.

The Dorset Care Record was launched in March 2018 and Astrid Fairclough spoke of how the pandemic had brought about “astronomical increases in use”. Continue reading “Shared Care Records – Reviewing Progress and Planning Next Steps” →

DCR October usage stats

Milestone reached: 50,000+ records accessed during October

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For the first time, more than 50,000 patient records were accessed by health and social care professionals during a month.

Figures released today show that more than  52,000 records were accessed during October, continuing the upward trend that has taken place this year.

The introduction of Single Sign On for all partners has contributed significantly to the rise with more than 37,000 records accessed by click-throughs from respective Electronic Patient Records. Portal log-ins have continued to be between 10,000 and 15,000 each month. Continue reading “Milestone reached: 50,000+ records accessed during October” →

Tony McDougal, Communications and Engagement Officer Dorset Care Record

Shared Care Webinar: Communications and Engagement – Coming Soon

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We are working with our sister organisation Wessex Care Records to set up a repository of information in a Learning Zone to help provide support and advice to Shared Care Records (ShCR) across the country.

The Learning Zone will include a range of topics and documents but we are also embarking on a series of webinar sessions that will be available to watch either live or later through our You Tube channel. Continue reading “Shared Care Webinar: Communications and Engagement – Coming Soon” →