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Dorset Digital Health: Smarter Solutions: Connecting Care

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We’ve been working with partners and Our Dorset to showcase Dorset’s Integrated Care System’s digital offer. In this video, you can find out about our work with community pharmacies, Yeovil Hospital, the forthcoming diabetes pathway and how we’ve grown in the past 12 months. The video also highlights our work with #WessexCareRecords on greater interoperability with our Hampshire friends and progress of the One Medication Record. Continue reading “Dorset Digital Health: Smarter Solutions: Connecting Care” →

New digital training course around information sharing and security

Digital Training during the Covid Pandemic

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Our training manager Catherine Snook highlights the digital changes introduced to make our information more relevant and easier to use

The importance of accessible, digital training content has never been greater than it is today. Here at the Dorset Care Record we have proactively reacted to the Covid-19 pandemic and used this opportunity to create newly revised online training content which is more relevant and accessible than ever before. What’s more, we now also provide a platter of online learning options to support our partner organisations, all of which can be accessed by the click of a button! Continue reading “Digital Training during the Covid Pandemic” →

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Better sharing of health records between NHS and care services – a consumer view

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In our latest blog, Healthwatch Dorset’s manager Louise Bate considers the feedback the organisation gathers from local people and the benefits of joined up health and social care records

Healthwatch Dorset offers an independent way for local people to ask questions about health and social care services and give their feedback. We’re a small team – 4 members of staff, plus a fantastic group of 120 volunteers working across the county. We use all the feedback we gather, through community engagement, social media, press, events and focus groups to improve local services. You can read more about our work in our latest Impact Report: https://healthwatchdorset.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/HWDorset-Annual-Report-2019-20-finalLr2.pdf

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