Care planning
Our care planning solution allows electronic care plans to be created and tailored to patient needs and supports staff to record care. It helps with planning care in a holistic and collaborative manner, using agreed local and national guidelines, in conjunction with NICE, the Nursing & Midwifery Council and NHS Digital, to ensure patient care is optimised.
The module helps users and patients to identify, manage and prepare a suitable plan to reach desired outcomes, be they personal or defined by admission. It ensures that a patient gets the same standard, quality and accuracy of care regardless of which members of the staff are on duty. As a ‘living document’ it encourages multidisciplinary engagement with the patient and creates a timeline of activity which is easy to review, edit and navigate.
A patient’s care plan is developed using a template, focusing on the essentials of care including nutrition, mobility, sleeping, tissue viability, falls prevention, psychological needs, recording of clinical interventions, communication and sexuality. Its flexibility allows for additional needs, goals and activities to be developed collaboratively with the patient, ensuring the care given is tailored to the person.
Care planning seamlessly integrates with other solutions and user base. It reduces the need for information being recorded on paper and makes it much easier to track the status of a plan as it develops.
Identify, prepare and manage fully auditable care plans for optimised patient care
- Supports an organisation to standardise care delivery and follow best practice
- Enables efficient working through integration of data and other modules
- Supports seamless sharing and actioning of care plans across multiple platforms and devices
- Releases nurses' time to care
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Benefits:
- Improved patient safety
- Improved clinical outcomes and patient experience
- Improved patient flow and financial performance
- Improved information sharing and care co-ordination
- Improved continuity of care across health communities
- Improved management of resources
- Allows and encourages wider multi-disciplinary teams to get involved in the care plan
Key components
Locally configurable templates
Create care plan templates based on patient pathways.
SNOMED support
Ability for trusts to include SNOMED care planning terms in the care plan content.
Audit capability
Every care plan entry is date & time-stamped, providing a full audit trail of the entire care plan.
Guidelines and protocols support
Ensures appropriate care is delivered, pathways are followed, and problem management is implemented using recommended guidelines and care protocols.
Narrative captured within the care plan
Clinicians will be able to record their actions and interventions directly on the patient care plan, providing a narrative within the context of care plan.
Access to the wider EPR
Authorised users will be able to navigate to the wider patient record, from activities and interventions, to complete an action such as an assessment or proforma and then return to the care plan.
Structured patient care communication
Needs, goals, activities and intervention templates are stored in an organised format to support structured patient care communication, providing an auditable patient care record.
Links to other patient information
Manages care using electronic patient information linking to specific parts of the record such as clinical notes, letters, appointments and referrals, improving efficiency and user experience.
Supports Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts objectives
Needs, goals and activities are clearly defined and communicated to those involved in the care of a patient ensuring care is consistent, reducing clinical risk and supporting Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST) objectives.
