Great North Care Record: Four bursary winners
2nd April 2020
In late 2019 we hosted a bursary award for members of the Great North Care Record – Network. We were inundated with applications and are pleased to announce we funded not one but four applications. The bursary award was for £1500 from the Network budget. The aim was to fund learning and development opportunities for […]
MIG licence extended in North East
26th March 2020
The Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG) licences for the North East will continue beyond 31st March 2020. The replacement for the MIG, the regional Health Information Exchange (HIE) went live earlier this month on 9th March. We have full confidence that the HIE works and the technology is available however the majority of users are still […]
Learning Health Systems and communities of practice
12th March 2020
Professional Engagement Lead for the Great North Care Record and Visiting Researcher at Newcastle University Lou Wilson writes about what a Learning Health System is and how we are using data to better care for patients. The ideas behind a Learning Health System (LHS) are critical to the Great North Care Record – how do […]
Health Information Exchange: GP data now live
9th March 2020
GP data on the regional Health Information Exchange (HIE) is now live. Over 98 per cent of GPs who currently share data on the MIG have signed the data sharing agreements. 90 per cent have completed the system configuration which allows their data to be technically made available. The project team is continuing to work […]
Health Information Exchange: GP data go-live date confirmed
4th March 2020
GP data on the regional Health Information Exchange (HIE) will go-live on 9 March 2020. The HIE is replacing the Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG) and will initially make GP records available. There will be a period of dual running both systems until 31 March 2020 when the MIG contract ends. This gives the project team […]
Getting over our attachment to attachments: Discourse and building organisational memory
4th February 2020
Post by Louise Wilson, February 04 2020 Professional Engagement Lead for the Great North Care Record and Visiting Researcher at Newcastle University Lou Wilson talks in this blog about why we use Discourse and how it’s so important in building organisational memory – especially relevant to us as a programme as we are not one […]
Why we have moved away from permission to view in the Great North Care Record
27th November 2019
Over the last few months, it’s fair to say the programme has been wrangling with our permission to view policy. Permission to view as an enabler Being asked permission to access a patient’s record at the point of care enabled us to share 3.6 million records. We went above and beyond the legal basis. We […]
Great North Care Record – Network bursary 2019 opens
14th October 2019
At the Great North Care Record (GNCR) Network, we think that it’s important to help develop future digital leaders. Because of this, we are offering a learning and development bursary this year that is open to all GNCR Network members. Anyone working in health or social care, voluntary sector, education or research roles based in […]
How health and care professionals are shaping the development of the Great North Care Record
22nd July 2019
The Professional Advisory Group or PAG has been set up with a key role in the governance of the Great North Care Record. The group comprises of healthcare practitioners and social workers who have a digital leadership role in their organisation. The group officially meets on a quarterly basis and is initially providing guidance on […]
Introducing the Trusted Research Environment
3rd April 2019
What’s in a name? First of all, what’s with the name? Let’s dig through the names we’ve had in CHC NENC (Connected Health Cities North East and North Cumbria) for this thing. It started of as the ARK because, y’know, there was going to be a flood of data (not our idea). Then when […]
