18/04/2011
Interactive Map
The interactive map details the GP Practices within Hampshire, Southampton City and Portsmouth City Primaty Care Trusts that are currently submitting data to the Hampshire Health Record.
04/04/2011
North Hampshire out of hours service gearing up to use the Hampshire Health Record.
North Hampshire out of hours service operates out of the Aldershot centre for health and provide out of hours services for the people of North Hampshire. They are gearing up for the Doctors to be able to use the Hampshire Health record - with the patients consent - to improve the service and care they are able to offer to patients.
28/03/2011
Hampshire Now
The spring edition of Hampshire Now has an advert informing residents of Hampshire about the HHR. In addition to this GPs will soon be receiving new Hampshire Health Record posters and leaflets to GP practices.
16/03/2011
More GPs joining the Hampshire Health record.
In the last 3 months 10 additional GP practices have signed up to joining the Hampshire Health Record; 60% of the population of Hampshire now have records on the Hampshire Health record, which continues to improve health care for Hampshire residents.
22/12/2010
Southampton General uses direct access to the HHR for their clinical staff.
Southampton General emergency department can now access the Hampshire health record directly from their clinical system, - giving emergency doctors better access to information to improve care for patients.
29/11/2010
Delivering real clinical benefit - an example of how the Hampshire Health record helped a GP save a life:
Recently an elderly woman was admitted to hospital from home as an emergency. During her stay it was agreed that she could not manage at home any longer so the hospital social work team arranged for her to be discharged to sheltered accommodation.
Because this was some way from her old home, she reregistered with a local practice and asked for a home visit. The GP who visited had no discharge summary or previous GP records for her, and when he visited her to review her medication she showed him the nomad pack which contained her medication.
Only when he checked her record on the Hampshire Health Record did he become aware that she was also taking warfarin, which, because it is a variable dose, was not in the nomad pack. The INR had not been checked since she was discharged from hospital 10 days earlier so he arranged an urgent test. When it came back the result was so high it was unrecordable. (Amazingly she had had no bruising or excessive bleeding)
The discharge summary, which was sent to the previous surgery, had requested a repeat INR within 1 week of discharge, but the problem had been compounded by her misunderstanding of the instructions and taking three times the prescribed dose.
This life threatening situation in an ideal world should have been prevented by better communication. The hospital should have been aware of the change of GP and sent the discharge summary to the new practice, the old practice should have known which practice was now looking after her and forwarded the discharge summary, and she should have had her warfarin tablets included in the rest of her medication record.
Unfortunately none of these things happened and in the real world that we have to live in, the Hampshire Health Record provides a safety net for patients to minimise risk when the other means of communication have broken down.
