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.
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”
One of Dorset HealthCare’s Project Support Officers, John Hutchence, has for the past 4 months been working on finding out what DHC users think of DCR and how to promote the system. In our latest blog, John highlights some of important feedback received and details what is being done to further promote the system.
DCR has been live for several years and statistics regarding use are regularly sent out to partner organisations. The number of trained users within DHC has risen to over 1000, but the number of active users each month has typically been around 20% of this figure. In mid-February a questionnaire was sent out to all trained users to find out more about how the Trust uses DCR, with a view to increase the figures. Continue reading “Growing the use of the Dorset Care Record – A Partner’s story”
In our latest think-piece project business analyst Jayne Catley argues that if “you’re not measuring it, you can’t manage it.”
Our Programme Management Office have been working on managing benefits for many months and I’ve provided a brief look at how we’ve gone about it.
Firstly, it’s important to ask what is a benefit and why do we need to identify benefits? A benefit should represent an improvement resulting from an action. Any project should have a good reason for existing in the first place. Otherwise, why do it? Continue reading “The Agony and the Ecstasy – Benefits”
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”
We recently sent out a questionnaire to around 30 users asking how our record helps them and how it is making a difference to their working lives and helping patients: Continue reading “Benefits of using the Dorset Care Record explored”
Finding information swiftly through the Dorset Care Record is helping a Dorset HealthCare worker, as it provides vital, accurate information about patient care and saves time for busy health professionals, GP’s and acute hospital staff.
Cathy Hopkins has been working at the Mid-Dorset hub in Dorchester for the past two years as a health and social care coordinator after 5 years working in human resources at the then Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals. Continue reading “Additional DCR information making a difference for NHS Health and Social Care Coordinator”
With 1,700 trained health and social care professionals now able to use the Dorset Care Record (DCR) and 11,400 records accessed last month, we’ve been looking at the areas where partners find real benefits and highlighting comments made in recent case studies.
Preliminary analysis over the past few months has shown that the DCR is widely used by pre-admittance and pre-op clinicians and by specialist respiratory, kidney and heart consultants across our three acute hospitals.
Across our two local authorities, there is also consistently heavy use from Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard teams as well as occupational therapists, physiotherapists and social workers.
Additional information to help professionals better understand people’s medical history and current situation and quicker, more up to date details, enabling better coordinated and safer care, are often cited as reasons for people using the DCR.
Here are some comments from partner case studies from across the Our Dorset partnership: Continue reading “Case study analysis: Why partners are using the DCR and how they are benefitting”