Gareth Curt, NHS England

Webinar: Top tips for Benefits Realisation

In this webinar, Gareth Curt, NHS England Shared Care Records Programme Benefits Analyst explores how Benefits Realisation Management (BRM) is applied against reality, discussing the challenges faced and top tips for doing BRM well.

He focuses on the purpose of BRM and the different roles we all play in delivering effective change.

SIDeR

SIDeR – Making the right information available to the right professional at the right time

In the fifth of our series of webinars, Dr Justin Harrington, Chief Clinical Information Officer NHS Somerset ICB and Jess Brown, digital programme officer, talk about the SIDeR Shared Care Record (SSCR), which went live in November 2020. They highlight its expansion across health and social care, its key functionality, clinical benefits, current usage and provide a demo of the test system. With the help of Tiff Hodkinson, Chief Operating Officer at their provider Black Pear Software, they touch on what’s next for SIDeR and answer a range of questions from the online audience.

Derbyshire Shared Care Record

Launching a Shared Care Record – The Derbyshire Experience

In the fourth of our series of webinars, Jane Owens and Charles Frakes from the Derbyshire Shared Care Record talk about Launching a shared care record. The webinar looks at a range of disciples that need to be taken into account, including communications, information governance and privacy issues, reporting structures, clinical safety, benefits realisation, processes and SOPs, the testing regime and future resources such as training.

 

DCR talk to the mid-Dorset Patient Participation Group

At the NHS Dorset Patient Participation Group webinar last week, comms and engagement manager Tony McDougal and project manager Jodie Crowfoot gave participants a background to the care record including why it’s needed, how it works and the benefits for both patients and medical practitioners.
They also introduced the new patient portal myDCR, currently in pilot stage, which will enable patients to view information and interact with their health and care practitioners.

 

 

 

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Community Pharmacies and the Dorset Care Record – Webinar

In the second of our series of webinars, Dorset Local Pharmaceutical Committee chief officer Amanda Moores and Marnhull pharmacist David Rose explore the benefits of using the Dorset Care Record. In conversation with the DCR’s communications manager Tony McDougal, they tackle the differences between the DCR and Summary Care Record, how pharmacists can get the most of shared care record and the regional and national situation.

 

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Open and Transparent – Communications and Engagement at the Dorset Care Record

Health and social care communications and engagement leads and project managers from around the country were provided with an update this week on communications and engagement work at the Dorset Care Record.

The webinar, the first of a series arranged with Wessex Care Records, is designed to start the establishment of a set of resources for shared care records to utilise as they develop and move to maturity.

Presented by the communications manager Tony McDougal, the webinar looked at how we’ve gone about our stakeholder and partner engagement work, our dealings with media and social media, some of the pitfalls we’ve faced and how we’ve overcome them and what’s next for Dorset.

 

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Communications and Engagement Webinar – Top Ten Take Home Messages

Dorset Care Record and its sister organisation Wessex Care Records are establishing a set of resources for shared care records to utilise as they develop and move to maturity.

In the first of the webinars, our Communications and Engagement Manager Tony McDougal – as part of a wider video –   provided a top ten take home messages that hopefully will be useful for communications and engagement specialists and project managers. Continue reading “Communications and Engagement Webinar – Top Ten Take Home Messages”

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Festival of the Future – Future Health and Care

We were delighted to be able to join Digital Dorset in their Festival of the Future event last week. The fifth day looked at health and social care and included a 15 minute slot on the Dorset Care Record, involving:

  • A myDCR animation video
  • A walk-through of the myDCR system by our business analyst Theresa Smith
  • An interview with our SRO Peter Gill and digital lead Crystal Dennis

You can see these from 1hr, 52m, 35 seconds!