{"id":1668,"date":"2021-07-21T13:44:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T13:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2021-07-21T13:50:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T13:50:11","slug":"adult-social-workers-benefitting-from-the-dorset-care-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/2021\/07\/21\/adult-social-workers-benefitting-from-the-dorset-care-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult social workers benefitting from the Dorset Care Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In our latest case study, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council&#8217;s\u00a0 Learning and Development officer Debbie Macaulay has been speaking to one of the council&#8217;s adult social workers about how they have been using the Dorset Care Record.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u00a0 is actually a massive help (aspects of huge time saving, accurate information gathering and efficiency) and I have been using DCR since it became available with increasing frequency as more and more detail has become available to view.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In my previous role in care management I found the following benefits of the system:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Huge time saving to be able to look up information (Next of Kin\u00a0 details, accurate information on current \u00a0GP surgery, whether a client is in hospital or not, what their medication regime is, past and current medical conditions, diagnosis, allergies etc ) and I don`t have to\u00a0 spend time waiting\u00a0 in the queue on a phone call or chase\u00a0 health colleagues for information.<\/li>\n<li>Being able to view\u00a0 clients regular and acute medication,\u00a0 when \u00a0these were last prescribed, etc enables social workers\u00a0 to cross reference evidence and\u00a0 more effectively assess client&#8217;s needs ( whether they are able to manage this independently or not), especially when they are affected by cognitive impairment and lack insight into what is happening.<\/li>\n<li>Being able to see the\u00a0 Encounters clients had with \u00a0different\u00a0 professionals (GPs, District Nurses, podiatry, dieticians etc)\u00a0 makes our involvement more person centred and\u00a0 social workers are able to be more proactive in responding to rising needs or arranging necessary actions in a timely manner.<\/li>\n<li>Being able\u00a0 to see past and future medical appointments are a massive help when assisting a client or their families with coordination,\u00a0 or when needing hospital transport. It is also essential when\u00a0\u00a0 we case manage more\u00a0 complex cases when social workers have intense and active involvements,\u00a0 especially when the client is no longer able to\u00a0 manage their affairs or\u00a0 lack the cognition to\u00a0 keep appointments.<\/li>\n<li>Being able to see the details of \u00a0involved professionals also saves time. If we have to liaise with them directly\u00a0 it takes quite a while to find out who we should talk to in the first instance.<\/li>\n<li>Being able to see\u00a0 hospital discharge letters or outpatient letters gives a lot more information for\u00a0 accurate assessments and provision of good \u00a0quality service.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to see\u00a0 referrals (pending or completed) is also\u00a0 great help in coordination or\u00a0 to ensure necessary referrals are requested.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In my current\u00a0 role as a Continuing Health Care (CHC) practitioner social worker I\u00a0 am using it even more often, as DCR\u00a0 contains\u00a0 a lot \u00a0of medical details and information that\u00a0 may not\u00a0 be readily available within the \u00a0evidence, care\u00a0 homes or CCG provides, or even\u00a0 within the GP summary sheet. This helps us to\u00a0\u00a0 be more effective\u00a0 in comprehensive \u00a0assessment, underpinned with \u00a0accurate details and dates, when\u00a0 assessing\u00a0 clients&#8217; eligibility for CHC funding, which in turn\u00a0 contributes to savings to the council, when we consider CHC eligible clients who otherwise\u00a0 would be funded by BCP council.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say I absolutely love this system and \u00a0it made my professional life a lot easier and\u00a0 clients as well as the council certainly benefits from us being able to use it. I have been recommending it to all my colleagues since the beginning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our latest case study, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council&#8217;s\u00a0 Learning and Development officer Debbie Macaulay has been speaking to one of the council&#8217;s adult social workers about how they have been using the Dorset Care Record. &#8220;It\u00a0 is actually a massive help (aspects of huge time saving, accurate information gathering and efficiency) and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1866,"featured_media":1669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[53,150,112,149],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/files\/2021\/07\/socialworker.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}