A single child health information system which covers South Gloucester to the Isles of Scilly in south west England has gone live.
The system, which is based on System C’s CarePlus software, logs the health status of almost 710,000 children, checking interventions and ensuring that none of them are duplicated or missed.
NHS England South West wanted to create a single system spanning South Gloucestershire, Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset, Devon, Torbay, Plymouth, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
The aim was to create a seamless region-wide service which prevented children falling through gaps and to keep track of movements both within and in and out of the area.
The go-live involved combining records and services across five CCGs, nine local authorities, 10 acute hospitals and 376 general practices and was delivered in two stages.
Stage one, which took place in July 2018, involved the records of 150,000 children living in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly being migrated from a RiO system into the existing CarePlus platform which is used in Devon.
The next stage involved moving 98,000 records for children living in Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSSG) being successfully across to CarePlus, creating a single South West child record.
James Bolt, head of public health commissioning at NHS England South West, said: “We are delighted to have gone live with CarePlus. Having a single system across the whole region is going to make a big difference to the efficiency and effectiveness with which health professionals can manage queries about children in the area.
“The result will be safer and more joined up care.”
The project follows an NHS England South procurement run in 2017, which was won by Health Intelligence with System C as its IT partner.
27 December 2018 @ 09:57
This is good news. Such a shame that Cornwall and TIOS didn’t join in the Plymouth/Torbay/Devon consortium which upgraded to CarePlus back in 2009/10!
24 December 2018 @ 13:32
The result will be safer and more joined up care….will it? The local HV and SNs are not on Careplus.
21 December 2018 @ 11:24
Will other NHS regions use the same software so we have a national unified Child Health system ?
If we really want to prevent children falling through gaps we have to lose the silo mentality that exists currently.
We need a national system to enable safer and truly joined up care.
20 December 2018 @ 16:14
Great news and only 10 years after NBT legend Martin Bell and I delivered the West Country’s first unified Child Health system across BNSSG, Gloucestershire, BANES, Swindon, Wiltshire & Somerset…..deal of the century too as we got that one virtually for free, story for the memoirs!!
19 December 2018 @ 08:15
Have parents / patients been advised of / asked for consent regarding this record sharing?