“To provide the best care possible for citizens we (health & social care) need to be able to share the right information in real time to our front line staff. Working with our Adult Social Care colleagues in Cumbria and utilising the MIG functionality has realised the vision of bi-directional real time record sharing and will clearly benefit service users and staff, helping to make us a great place to be cared for and a great place to work.

We now have bi-directional social care data, going from health to social care we provide a view of the core record such as demographics, allergies, medical problems, care plans and end of life datasets. We also have some special patient notes, such as notes for a vulnerable patient, child etc. and we share all that in real time. Social care datasets also come back towards health and we are currently in pilot for this.

The integration with Liquidlogic, the system used for social care services in our area means system data can be joined-up. The MIG provides HTML views from the Liquidlogic Adult content store system as a specified dataset. Real time feeds of social care data include patient demographics, allocated case worker, associated carer, disability, risk type and case details.”

Dr William Lumb, GP Sedbergh and Clinical Lead East integrated Care Community, Clinical Director Integrated Services Care Group, Bay Health & Care Partners