Claire Brookes – Service Delivery Manager / Digital Pen Project Lead Sharon Hackett – Senior Midwifery Manager (Clinical Governance)Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

Electronic Personal Child Health record

(ePCHR)

From Birth and Beyond

Presentation Overview

Company Overview Other strategic partnerships in healthcare Digital Pen Track Record Partnership with Portsmouth

1. Q & A

Wednesday 19 April 2023Freeing Time to Care in Maternity Services

Paper driven service Duplication of patient data Potential loss of patient identifiable data Data entry by midwives reducing time to care Additional data entry via admin Notes mislaid, stolen or damaged from mothers Travelling costs

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Issues with current system

From Pilot to date SHA Funded pilot Initial set of notes Pilot Phase Integration – image Integration – data New notes – designed by Midwives for midwives Surpass Maternity Minimum dataset requirements PbR activity recording DH – Enter once use many times

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Lessons Learnt….Many!

Small scale pilot

Notes being mapped to a system .v. process

Initial increase in activity

Training on quality & technology -1:1 and group

Champions – user engagement

Partnership working

Persistence is the key

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Benefits

Limited change in working practice

Freeing time to care

Eradication of duplication of entry

Pathway Improvement – data capture for Mandatory

fields

Activity Data – PbR, CQINN, Service & performance

Lone working support

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Improved compliance with Information Governance

Litigation - full set of notes - audit

Savings – admin staff, storage, travel time

Statutory & Mandatory reporting

Targets – including CNST level 2

Discrete solution

Improved electronic communication

Benefits

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Digital Pen Awards

Winner of 2010 Global Wireless Leadership Award

Winner of 2011 Business Applications Innovation

Award

Winner of 2011 Mobile Working Project of the Year

Winner of 2011 Best Use of Mobile Technology in

Healthcare

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Wednesday 19 April 2023

Launch of new notes Pilot site for PCHR Link community with hospital

maternity unit Link community midwives with

Pathology services Safeguarding Children’s Team

What’s Next

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The Future & other Projects Registrar of births & deaths NHS Baby number ED pilot – using blip nodes Paediatric virtual clinics Linking with Children Adolescent Mental Health teams Community Substance Misuse team

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Questions

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