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.TitleDescriptionDate Presented to CRGCRG Decision
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

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