You will be aware that work was undertaken earlier this year to enable the Integrated Care Record (ICR) to go LIVE in Warwickshire. On completion, health and social care professionals across the county now have a more joined-up view of patient records.  

The second phase is now underway and this includes children and young adults under the age of 18.  Soon, Children and Families social care staff (as well as Adult Social Care staff), will be able to view health records of patients U-18, which are also used by health colleagues too in various health settings including hospitals, clinics, GP surgeries and specialist treatment centres. 

The ICR enables health and social care practitioners the ability to make better, faster and safer care decisions. From the individual customer/patient and their parent/guardian/carer, the ICR puts less pressure on the adult to remember all the details about their own or a dependents’ care, and reduces the number of times they need to share their story or clinical history. 

For more information about the ICR, please go to https://www.happyhealthylives.uk/our-system/integrated-care-record/