The Lincolnshire Shared Care Record brings together patient information across all services from hospitals to social care, so that health and care staff can access information in one place. Find out more here: Lincolnshire Care Record – Lincolnshire ICB.

With our support 89% of care homes in the county have now made the transition from paper to digital. We ensure that care homes have completed a data security protection toolkit (DSPT) and have NHS Mail for secure communications.

Remote monitoring is now in use in..

• Care homes – to monitor physical healthcare observations which in turn leads to a reduction in urgent and emergency care admissions.  GPs can also support remotely in decision making
  
• Virtual wards
  
• Cardiology – to increase capacity in outpatient settings
  
• Care Homes – to reduce falls
  
• People’s own homes (a pilot run by the council) to monitor and flag resident’s movements to aid support and interventions from social and health care
  

The hospital is moving from paper based systems and this work will be transformational for the hospital. lt will underpin the digital maturity needed to integrate, share information, undertake work as a system and improve outcomes for the whole population.

We are working to ensure the NHS App is the ‘front door’ to online services for patients.

Find out more at: Download the NHS App – Lincolnshire ICB. 

We are working with our partners across the health and care system to ensure everyone has access to digital services. Our partners in third sector, such as Ability Net, take referrals, make sure SIM cards are available at food banks and that full fibre broadband connections are available in rural and coastal areas across the county.