Jacqui Cooper, pictured right, alongside Natasha Philips, former CNIO for NHS England (centre) and Paula Bennett, Chief Nurse at Health Innovation Manchester (left), joined Health Innovation Manchester as Chief Nursing Information Officer in December 2023. She has previously been CNIO in four organisations and has supported and led the process of digitising nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals in pre and post electronic patient record go-lives.

Over 500 nurses, midwives and allied health professionals from Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) came together to share knowledge and best practice at the NMAHP annual conference on Friday 22nd March 2024. The packed schedule included the NMAHP strategy launch, awards ceremony, presentation workshops and brilliant keynote speeches from Professor Natasha Philips, former Chief Nursing Information Officer for England and Lemn Sissay, poet, playwright and broadcaster.

This year’s theme of ‘Enhancing care, Evolving Practice & Enabling Research in a Digital Age’ follows MFT’s recent roll out of Epic’s electronic patient record system, Hive, and it was inspiring to see dozens of presentations and posters demonstrating excellent work across all specialties supported by digital.  

But we really wanted to know what our colleagues at MFT thought about the GM Care Record, or if they were even aware of its existence.

Our conference survey showed that only 55% of staff had heard of the GM Care Record and of those, 57% had used it to access primary care information, support coordinated care, and for medicines management.

Feedback from colleagues who had accessed the GM Care Record was overwhelmingly positive with comments such as:

“It’s an amazing resource that has completely changed our clinical care by giving access to patient records”

“We use it to coordinate end of life care with community teams”

“I no longer have to ask patients about their medications or conditions”

Help us spread the word about the GM Care Record

The GM Care Record is the one shared source of truth for everyone involved in a person’s care across primary care, secondary care, community, hospice, community pharmacy, social care, mental health and specialist services such as the North West Ambulance Service and The Christie. It:

• is easy to access
• provides vital patient information
• saves hours of ringing around
• reduces duplication of tests
• ensures continuity of high quality care, and
• means patients don’t need to repeat their story.

It’s available to health and social care teams across Greater Manchester right now, and it takes less than 15 minutes to understand the system. Visit gmwearebettertogether.com/training.