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Mobile Testing Unit, Photo Credit: Dorset Echo

On the front line tackling COVID-19

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One of our project managers, Kerry Griffin, has for the past 4 months been dividing her time with a front-line role in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic. In our latest blog, Kerry highlights some of the lessons learned from her stint managing Dorset’s Mobile Testing Units.

Earlier this Autumn, I saw an advert for a secondment for a part-time project manager to hit the ground running and manage Dorset’s Mobile Testing Units (MTUs). The role appealed to me as I wanted to do my bit to help support the Council’s Covid work and living in the community I thought I was well-suited to the post.

My role is to provide the logistics for the MTUs across Dorset that carry out PCR tests for people to see if they have Covid. Although the actual tests are run by the NHS, it is up to local government to sort out the facilities. Continue reading “On the front line tackling COVID-19” →

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Tips for video-conferencing in a Covid-19 world

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We are all using social media and video conferencing tools to communicate with friends, family and work in the Covid-19 era. Our Information Governance lead David Way highlights some tips to help us work more securely online

I joined the programme board of the Dorset Care Record just under two years ago having recently started work at Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust as their Information Governance manager and Data Protection Officer.

It was an interesting time to join the project as the big changes in data protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, as it is better known, had come into place. There was a need for the project to ensure it was compliant with GDPR and the new Data Protection Act 2018.

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Community pharmacies to join the Dorset Care Record

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Up to 150 community pharmacies across the county are to be given access to health and social care records held within the Dorset Care Record (DCR)

This will give them up to date records in a transparent and easy to understand way – particularly important in this current time.

Pharmacies are the first sector outside the acute and community hospital and social care settings to be given access to the DCR and the move has been fast-tracked due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Functionality, multiple systems and dealing with COVID-19: Our test manager’s view

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Our test manager Vinay Gunwant looks at some of the functionality linked to releases in the Dorset Care Record, highlights some of the issues posed in dealing with multiple systems and charts benefits to clinicians during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

I have been part of the Dorset Care Record (DCR) for the past four months and having been involved in the Gloucestershire shared care record (JUYI) I had a fair idea of the interoperability programmes and the potential issues and pitfalls that can affect the programme.

However, each programme has new stakeholders, different systems and suppliers and I felt it was important to get to know the personalities involved with the DCR and re-adjust to working smoothly with them.

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