Kent and Medway has gone live with the CareCentric shared care record across the region’s integrated care system. This is the third system to go live with CareCentric over the last year following rapid deployments at Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire, and Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.
The system brings together information from a growing number of settings, including four acute hospital trusts, three community-based providers, two mental health services, South East Ambulance Service and 198 GP practices, in addition to Kent County Council and Medway Council’s children’s and adults’ social care teams.
The Kent and Medway Care Record (KMCR) was commissioned by a collaborative comprising the NHS Kent and Medway CCG, Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust, Kent County Council and Medway Council to provide health and care professionals with secure access to the most important and recent health and care information about a citizen in one central place from multiple health and care organisations.
Dr Navin Kumta, clinical chair of Kent and Medway CCG said, “The KMCR is delivering a significant transformational change in Kent and Medway. As well as helping us improve front line care, the KMCR underpins our drive to integrate care across the system.”
In the future, people living in Kent and Medway will be able to access key information from their own shared care record through the KMCR patient portal, giving them the ability to proactively manage and engage with various elements of their care.
