In this article, we take a look back at our communications campaign earlier in the year. We are constantly building on the campaign, by attending public engagement events and by securing media coverage – most recently in Digital Health, Health Tech newspaper the Dorset Echo and Lyme on Lime.
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Up to 100 people attended last week’s Wessex Care Records Programme Awareness event in Bournemouth – the first of its kind for the pilot Local Health and Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE).
In our latest blog, Dorset Cancer Centre project manager Wendy Green talks about the progress of the cancer follow-up pathway, which is a key pilot for our Citizen Portal.
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One year after demographics from the three acute hospitals and GP Summary Care Records came on stream in the Dorset Care Record, Communications Officer Tony McDougal looks back at progress over the past 12 months.
People living in Dorset can look forward to enhanced coordinated care as further records are joined up within the Dorset Care Record (DCR).
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Shared experiences and the chance to air common concerns and issues were a key part of the recent national Local Health and Care Record conference in London. Katharine Guthrie, Wessex Local Health and Care Record stakeholder manager, reports
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The Dorset Care Record has elevated our ability to look at the patient’s record above that provided by the Summary Care Record. As it has a user friendly interface and with no smart card required I can access it anywhere and get the latest information from primary care on my patients.
Most recently it has been of use in seeing who has been immunised for flu so allowing us to a make the correct choices around prophylaxis when they have been exposed.
Dr Matt Thomas (centre), Consultant Geriatrician, Poole hospital.
Over the New Year period, we carried out a communications campaign around the launch of a new leaflet, “Have you heard about the Dorset Care Record?”
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Clinicians, patient representatives, wider advocacy stakeholders and partners joined forces this week for a major workshop to take forward the Dorset Care Record (DCR) Citizen Portal. This was the first occasion for many to have their say on key issues around what should be within the Citizen Portal.
