#Yeovil Hospital

Clare Cockill, Yeovil District Hospital senior nurse practitioner

Community information through the DCR providing a lifeline for bone specialists

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Osteoporosis and Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) lead nurse practitioner at Yeovil District Hospital Clare Cockill is an enthusiastic user of the Dorset Care Record.

Clare, who has practised at Yeovil since 2006, said that in an average year Yeovil FLS deals with around 1500 new patients with fragility fractures, many of them elderly due to the demographic nature of the population in north Dorset and south Somerset. Continue reading “Community information through the DCR providing a lifeline for bone specialists” →

Yeovil Hospital - now receiving Dorset Care Record feeds

Dorset Care Record provides feeds to Yeovil Hospital staff dealing with Coronavirus

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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.

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