Special Report: Shared Care Records
How much progress has been made on shared records, what obstacles remain, and can the exemplars help other areas of the NHS progress? Maja Dragovic investigates.
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How much progress has been made on shared records, what obstacles remain, and can the exemplars help other areas of the NHS progress? Maja Dragovic investigates.
The aim was to create a seamless region-wide service which prevented children falling through gaps and to keep track of their movements.
The standards ensure that records can be easily found when needed, particularly in an emergency and means patients won’t have to repeat information.
Following a successful pilot with a small number of nurses, consultants and podiatrists, the service can now be accessed by all diabetes clinicians in Northern Ireland to help better inform the care of more than 100,000 patients.
Imperial begins recruiting patients at scale for open shared portal that puts individuals in control of deciding who can see their medical records.
System C & Graphnet Care Alliance’s initial deployment adds locator records for patients who have been referred to Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP).