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Yeovil Hospital - now receiving Dorset Care Record feeds

Dorset Care Record provides feeds to Yeovil Hospital staff dealing with Coronavirus

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Clinicians and staff working on Coronavirus patients at Yeovil District Hospital (YDH) are for the first time receiving feeds from the Dorset Care Record (DCR).

Until now, Yeovil – which takes 30-40 per cent of their emergency admissions from Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) patients – has been unable to access the DCR.

But fast-tracked work due to the spread of the virus means that up to 150 clinicians and staff will now be able to read the GP records of Dorset patients they are providing care for, resulting in less wasted time. In the past, YDH clinicians had to ring Dorset GPs to gather this information.

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Demographics feeds for adults and Single Sign On from Dorset Council enter the Dorset Care Record

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Dorset Council has this week become the first local authority to send demographic information as an electronic feed into the Dorset Care Record (DCR)

For the first time, information from the adults Mosaic system will feed in to the DCR, marking a major technical and organisational milestone for the health and social care record.

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Update: Steep rise in records accessed during January

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Handling and sharing sensitive records in the Dorset Care Record

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The Dorset Care Record is the first shared health and social care record in England to work through the complexities of handling and sharing sensitive records from NHS Digital’s Personal Demographic Service as marked on the NHS Spine.

These restricted records are used to protect the location of vulnerable patients in high risk categories, such as adoption and witness protection.

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Reasons why partner staff sign up to use the Dorset Care Record…

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Having the most up to date patient information, gaining access to data involving people who need emergency social interventions, ensuring patient safety and assessing patient’s fitness prior to surgery are all reasons why staff are signing up to use the Dorset Care Record (DCR).

As part of our ongoing engagement, we asked for partner staff comments about why they wanted to use the DCR, and many felt the system would help them complete an evidence-based assessment as well as helping facilitate a better client journey.

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Growing the Dorset Care Record

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The launch of the maternity clinical pathway for midwives and health visitors has helped push the number of records accessed through the Dorset Care Record during December to more than 4,000.

Latest figures, provided by our tech company Orion Health, show there were 4,131 records accessed during December – a jump of 44.6% on November’s figures (2,856).

The December figure was more than 1,000 higher than any previous month since the DCR launched in February 2018.

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Engagement leaflet

Engaging with hard to reach groups

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As part of our engagement with some of Dorset’s newest communities, we’ve now translated our Better Informed means Better Care leaflet into a number of different languages.

The leaflet is now available in Kurdish, Arabic, Pashto and the Tigrinya language following requests from one our partners – Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council.

Our leaflet is also available in Polish, Urdu and Mandarin thanks to the work of Bournemouth-based translation company Bostico International.

If you require electronic copies of the Better Informed means Better Care leaflet, which contains our opt-out form, please send an email to dorsetcarerecord@dorsetcc.gov.uk , write to us at The Dorset Care Record Partnership, County Hall, Colliton Park, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1XJ or ring our helpline on 0845 200 0026.

DCR: Our Journey so far….

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We’ve updated our infographic which highlights the progress of the Dorset Care Record (DCR) as we enter a new decade.

The infographic provides a wealth of information about what is currently in the DCR, its current users and usage, numbers of records accessed and people who have decided to opt out and amount of engagement events that have taken place.

For example, we had 2,856 unique records viewed last month by more than 1,000 authorised and qualified health and care professionals following completion of training with 83 GP practices feeding data into the DCR.

We’ll be updating this again mid-year to show the ongoing progress taking place.

The Dorset Care Record – Orion Health case study

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Our tech provider Orion Health has produced a Dorset Care Record case study highlighting the challenge, solutions and results so far.

The case study, available on line and in print, talks about our phased approach to implementation, based on regular releases of additional data and functionality.

For those technically-minded, DCR is cloud-based, with hosting provided by Redcentric. Patient record matching is done through an interface between the Orion Health platform and NextGate’s market-leading Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI).

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Reflections from Orion Health’s Customer Conference – Manchester

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Delegates attending Orion Health’s annual conference in Manchester this week were given updates on precision driven health, medicines management, business intelligence and population health tools and heard about some of the latest regional information sharing.

Orion Health works across the world at 58 Health Information Exchange sites from 22 offices in 15 countries with 110m+ patient records. So, it was interesting to hear from Orion country leads about digital health work taking place as far afield as the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Canada, France, Spain and Australasia.

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