Why should you use the Lincolnshire Care Record?
Shared Information, Better Lives.
By using the Lincolnshire Care Record every day, for every person you provide care for, you’ll save time.
More importantly, you’ll make a difference, improving the quality of people’s care and their experience of it.
If you’re better informed the care you provide can be:
- safer, avoiding potential mistakes around medication and allergies
- faster, with no need to wait for information from other providers
- less frustrating for those receiving care – no repeating their story or explaining social care support to healthcare professionals.
Examples of some of the information that is available on the Lincolnshire Care Record:
- Referrals
- Appointments
- Encounters
- Documents (incl. Discharge and Outpatient letters)
- Endoscopy
- Observations
- Mental Health Act status
- Care Plans
- Social Care Information
- Care Team
What if you don’t use it?
Without this invaluable tool, it can be difficult to get important information in time to provide the best care. This leads to:
- Duplication of work
- the same conversations
- the same tests
- the same results
- chasing others for vital information.
That’s all time and money wasted that could be better spent across the health and care system.
How would not using it affect the people you care for?
For the person needing health or social care support, it could be exasperating.
Imagine…
- Emergency Department clinicians at night, when GP practices are closed, making potentially life-saving decisions without access to the patient’s medication details or medical history
- a social work out-of-hours team, providing unplanned support for someone at the weekend with the challenge of trying to get a full picture of their healthcare.
Watch this short video…
Dan Lane , GP – Willingham By Stow Surgery
”The Lincolnshire Care Record is a vital tool for my day-to-day work in the practice. I can quickly find results of scans and X-rays which have been arranged by secondary care colleagues.”