In August, Simon Stevens, NHS CEO outlined the third phase of the NHS response to COVID-19, setting out priorities for the NHS developing and implementing a full shared care record. This has now been backed by central funding support from NHSX for systems purchased before March 2021.

As interoperability specialists and home of the Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG), we’ve explored key considerations in the delivery and adoption of shared care records for all 42 sustainability and transformation partnerships (STP) and integrated care systems (ICS):

Deployment at scale and pace

The announcement states shared care records must be deployed by September 2021, a narrow time frame for successful delivery. Our Prince2 qualified projects team, have a track record connecting over 4500 health and care settings, with rapid deployment. We deploy our projects at pace, meaning clinicians can quickly have access to patient data to support informed decision, improving clinical safety.  

Shared care records need to link to multiple clinical systems to ensure data flows between care settings. Today Healthcare Gateway have over 80 MIG accredited partner clinical systems, supporting programmes of work at both local and regional level, with an average of over 18 million safe and secure transactions each month.

Availability of patient records

The complex landscape of clinical systems in place across NHS uncovers gaps in patient care where patient data is not connected, in essence a true shared care record is one that is connected and reliant upon data locked in disparate systems. The MIG using national standards makes this simple by joining up any patient data from any clinical system in real-time, so that every health and care setting and every healthcare professional can access accurate patient data in their native system, improving patient care pathways.

The MIG connects patient data from ALL primary care systems plus health and social care data. Working with our trusted partners the MIG enables bi-directional feeds of HTML or structured data, to provide a complete economy of data including primary care, acute, mental health, social care and community datasets ensuring it’s available to clinicians when and where it is needed.

Interoperability specialists

Interoperability is at the heart of every shared care record. It’s the component that breaks down data silos, enabling data to flow. Not only a technology provider we’re experts currently supporting 60% of STPs across England, spanning projects of all shapes and sizes. Beyond implementing MIG solutions our specialist knowledge and partner alliances ensure our customers receive that crucial end to end fully managed service from data governance guidance, technical support and service-led engagement.  We’re ISO27001 certified, with our people keeping the gears moving across digital transformation projects.

In Summary

Healthcare Gateway can support the roll out of shared care records by:

• Implementing interoperability projects at pace
• Provide access to patient data from ALL primary care systems, plus health and social care data
• Support integration and beyond with our end to end fully managed service.

Why not take a look at our blog “The Minimum Viable Solution of Shared Care Records explained: how to meet the September deadline.”