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COVID-19 GM Digital Clinical Reference Group
Ensuring optimum care and treatment for patients across the city-region
The purpose of the COVID-19 GM Digital Clinical Reference Group is to provide clinical leadership, scrutiny and leadership into how the GM Care Record is effectively maintained and developed to ensure optimum care and treatment, minimising clinical risks and assuring patient safety.
The group meets on a weekly basis to consider new developments to the GM Care Record. It is chaired by Dr Tracey Vell, Manchester GP and Clinical Director of Health Innovation Manchester. The terms of reference can be viewed here.
A summary of the key decisions made by the group are listed below:
Decision Log
Item no. | Title | Description | Date Presented to CRG | CRG Decision |
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1 | Additional functionality: Clinical Documentation (a) | To enable flow of discharge summaries from Pennine Acute | 06-05-2020 | Decision ratified |
2 | Additional functionality: Clinical Documentation (b) | To enable flow of discharge summaries from all secondary care organisations | 06-05-2020 | Decision approved |
3 | Additional functionality: Advanced Care Planning | To switch on the icon, which displays coded end of life data from the GP system | 13-05-2020 | Decision approved |
4 | Clinical Safety Standard Operating Model | For Geoff Lavelle to act as the interim Clinical Safety Officer on behalf of GM and to agree the governance and documentation for risk management | 20-05-2020 | Agreed Geoff Lavelle as interim GM Clinical Safety Officer and will oversee this work on behalf of the CRG |
5 | New access request: Care home staff | To discuss the appropriateness of the request, including clinical justification for access and audit procedures. | 27-05-20 | Supported by CRG, subject to risk mitigations |
6 | Standardisation: GM Minimum Data Specification (a) | To agree the minimum data spec for adults’ and children’s social care data fields for standardised implementation across GM. | 10-06-2020 | Specification agreed as a recommendation |
7 | Standardisation: GM Minimum Data Specification (b) | To agree the minimum data spec for Mental Health, Community and Cancer Summary data fields for standardised implementation across GM. | 24-06-2020 | Specification agreed as a recommendation |
8 | Access Request: to GP medications data for social workers | To support a change to the Social Care /Community/ Mental Health landing page to include GP Problems and GP Medications tiles | 08-07-2020 | Agreed |
9 | On boarding Request: Community Pharmacists | To discuss the appropriateness of the request, including clinical justification for access and audit procedures. | 22-07-2020 | Requested access recommended. |
10 | On boarding Request: Wigan Specialist Weight Management Service | To discuss the appropriateness of the request, including clinical justification for access and audit procedures. | 05-08-2020 | Requested access recommended, subject to IG approval. |
11 | Records of deceased patients | To discuss the value of retaining deceased patients’ records within the GMCR. | 02-09-2020 | Retention of data in GMCR for 10 years, as per IG regulations, recommended. |
12 | Covid-19 Pathology data | To discuss any clinical safety risks around the differences in display of Covid-19 test results in the GMCR. | 02-09-2020 | No clinical safety risk. To explore viability of standardisation of results with Pathology specialists. |
13 | Onboarding Request: Pennine MSK Partnership (Oldham) | To discuss the appropriateness of the request, including clinical justification for access and audit procedures. | 30-09-2020 | Requested access recommended. |
14 | New functionality: Discharge to Assess (D2A) | To consider the clinical value of the Discharge to Assess eform solution | 30-09-20 | Approved by CRG |
15 | New functionality: Special Patient Notes tile for NWAS | To consider the clinical value of a tile to include Special Patient Notes data for access by NWAS staff | 28-10-20 | Approved by CRG |
16 | New functionality: Continuing Healthcare Checklist | To consider the clinical value of the Continuing Health Care eform solution | 28-10-20 | Approved by CRG |
17 | New feed/view/SSO: SafeSteps tile with SSO and Dashboard access | To consider the clinical value of a SafeSteps tile in the GMCR and access to the patient’s SafeSteps dashboard via SSO | 11-11-20 | Approved by CRG |
18 | New functionality: Covid Oximetry at Home | To consider the clinical value of the COVID Oximetry at Home solution (remote monitoring with patient held app) | 11-11-20 | Approved by CRG |
19 | New functionality: MyMaternity Care | To consider the clinical value of the Blood Pressure and Glucose monitoring solution (remote monitoring with patient held app) | 06-01-21 | Approved by CRG |
20 | New functionality: Frailty & Dementia Care Plans | To consider the 2 options for multi-agency care plans: the Black Pear and the GMCR solutions. To make a clinically strategic recommendation. | 06-Jan-21 / 03-Feb-21 | GMCR solution supported and recommended for GM by CRG |
21 | New Capability: Digitisation of Heart Failure Care Plan (eForm) (1) | To consider the clinical value of the Heart Failure Care Plan (eForm) (and patient held app) | 31-Mar-21 / 28-Apr-21 | Approved by CRG |