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
Delegates from across the country flocked to London’s Excel Centre for the first time since Covid to hear a range of speakers stress the importance of learning and enhancing the digital technological advances learnt from the pandemic. Our Communications and Engagement Manager Tony McDougal reports
Huge advances made in data analysis and technology from the Covid pandemic must be taken forward in the new Integrated Care Systems, ensuring both health and care settings benefit from learnings.
Continue reading “Digital Technology key to enhancing our health and care services”
We are delighted to welcome John Farenden, NHS England senior programme director and shared care record lead, to talk about the future of direction of shared care records.
John’s webinar will take place on Wednesday 25 May from 10am-11am and intriguingly he has entitled his talk, “Clare, Ellie, Jane and Branwen”. He will also be available to answer questions at the end of the Webinar.
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We look forward to seeing you at this event, which will be filmed and available on our You Tube channel later. You can find our past webinars
Communications and Engagement Challenges and Opportunities – Dorset Care Record Webinar – Communications and Engagement: What works and what hasn’t…. – YouTube
Community Pharmacies and the DCR – Community Pharmacies and the Dorset Care Record – YouTube
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During the Covid pandemic many staff were redeployed into the Single Point of Access (SPA) team – the Transfer of Care Hub for Dorset. They have been involved in transferring patients from one setting to another to ensure consistent continuity of care.
The SPA is a remote service, which operates 7 days a week from 8am until 6pm. Its remit is to work with partners across the Integrated Care System, including our acute hospitals and social services. It uses the Discharge to Assess pathways to support hospital discharges, thereby increasing patient flow. Continue reading “How our shared record is helping teams involved with hospital discharges”
In our latest think-piece project business analyst Jayne Catley argues that if “you’re not measuring it, you can’t manage it.”
Our Programme Management Office have been working on managing benefits for many months and I’ve provided a brief look at how we’ve gone about it.
Firstly, it’s important to ask what is a benefit and why do we need to identify benefits? A benefit should represent an improvement resulting from an action. Any project should have a good reason for existing in the first place. Otherwise, why do it? Continue reading “The Agony and the Ecstasy – Benefits”
New Zealand Orion Health Product Director Vianney Chauvineau this week spent a day meeting the Dorset Care Record team and the Integrated Care System’s Enterprise Digital Architect Graham Sheppard.
Chauvineau, who is meeting customer clients across Europe, visited with Orion Health’s UK and Ireland Product Owner Bruce Horne to discuss the progress of the diabetes pathway, our fledgling patient portal, myDCR roadmap and future product developments. Continue reading “New Zealand Orion Health product director meets our staff”
Orion Health’s Senior Project Manager Doug Robertson looks at how myDCR will become the firm’s first patient portal in England and highlights some of the benefits arising.
Enabling patient engagement is a key priority for Orion Health. While we work with 60+ shared care records globally, relatively few of these have embarked on digital patient engagement programmes.
It has been a privilege to work with the team at My Dorset Care Record (myDCR), particularly given that it is the first implementation of our patient portal technology in England. myDCR expects to deliver wide-ranging benefits to both patients and health care staff. Continue reading “myDCR joins leading patient engagement solutions around the world”
Catherine is an administrative assistant in the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) team. Using the Dorset Care Record is now an integral part of the role to ensure data is clean and up to date.
For each referral received Catherine and the team check whether patients receiving treatment in the County’s hospitals (and care homes) are from the Dorset Council, Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole (BCP) local authority areas or whether they are out of area.
To do this the person’s ordinary residence needs to be established. However, sometimes addresses are listed as specific hospital wards (rather than the persons home address). So, Catherine uses the DCR to get further demographic information about the patient. This saves time for both the hospitals and the team. Continue reading “Mental Capacity Act and the Dorset Care Record – A user’s view”
In our latest think-piece, project manager Jodie Crowfoot highlights the team’s work around learning lessons from recent releases
As the Dorset Care Record (DCR) enters its fourth year of being a live system and after a number of different functionality releases, we have now established a successful process by which we record and action any lessons learnt from previous releases.
During a release we maintain documentation which key people on the project can access, so we can add lessons learnt throughout the process. These lessons can be things we want to keep as they have gone well or things that we want to improve on in future releases as they have not been as successful. Continue reading “Benefits from Lessons Learnt exercises following live releases”