Shared care records need to take a patient-centric approach to prevent harm and save lives.
In his DCR webinar presentation, John Farenden provided some detailed case studies, highlighting past failings, which had led to coroner’s reports highlighting the inability of health and care organisations to share information properly. Continue reading “Taking a patient-centric approach – Ellie, Clare, Branwen and Jane”
In the third of our series of webinars with Wessex Care Records, NHS England Senior programme lead for shared care records John Farenden, provides a range of case studies, highlighting the need for joined up records and answers a wide-range of questions covering GP Connect feeds, consent and IG issues, COPI and working with regional ambulance service trusts
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.
A man’s life has been saved thanks to the Dorset Care Record.
The middle-aged man, who has complex learning difficulties, a history of alcohol dependency and a form of psychosis, has in the past often presented himself to hospitals saying he had something in his heart or something was trying to get out of his stomach.
Anna Cosslett, Chief Clinical Information Officer at Dorset HealthCare, said she had noticed some weeks ago that the man also exhibited very high cholesterol levels: “We managed with his GP to add this information to the man’s Summary Care Record, which feed in to the Dorset Care Record (DCR). We said that he should be physically examined before being discharged if he presented himself again at hospital,” she told the DCR Programme Board this week.
The man presented himself at Dorset County Hospital and the first consultant, who did not have access to the DCR, referred him to a psychiatrist on mental health grounds. The second consultant looked on his Dorset Care Record as the first port of call and after tests realised he had suffered a heart attack. He has been treated in Dorchester and is recovering.