News
Liquidlogic Children's Social Care
The UK's leading case management solution for children's social care.
View navigation
The System C & Graphnet Care Alliance has worked in partnership with London's commissioned services to replace 18 separate child record systems across 32 boroughs with a single pan-London electronic patient record solution, in record time.
As a result of the new London Child Information Service (CHIS), administration time has halved in one area and comprehensive data is available across a whole region in hours, not weeks. Within a few hours of being requested by the Grenfell Tower action team, the CHIS produced a full list of every child who had been resident in the previous six months.
Commissioned by NHS England (London region) in line with the new Child Health Digital Strategy (published in August 2016), the integrated London-wide solution aims to:
It took the System C & Graphnet Care Alliance just four months to deliver a comprehensive electronic record of every child’s public health records in the capital.
The system is powered by CarePlus, System C’s child health management solution. Graphnet’s CareCentric shared record platform sits on top of CarePlus, broadening record access beyond the central child health teams to additional authorised professionals at their point of work, such as health visitors. The CareCentric platform also manages interfacing with third party systems such as London’s eRedbook, giving parents an electronic record to help them manage their child’s early years.
The work involved migrating 52.5m data points and integration with 27 maternity departments, three bloodspot screening laboratories, newborn hearing screening services as well as electronic receipt of birth notification via the Spine. The system provides an electronic upload of immunisations, NIPE, bloodspot, hearing screening data, antenatal referrals as well as outbound data feeds to 0-19 services clinical systems. It integrates with London’s eRedbook.
Data is available across a whole region in hours, not weeks – particularly important at times of emergency such as the Grenfell Tower fire.
A full suite of data-sharing agreements has been accredited and signed off. The team at NHS England (London) is making these available as a resource to all regions.
Statutory and local reporting is automated at the CCG, STP and local authority level.
More robust, evidenced data. For example:
Knowing where a child lives, tracking their newborn blood spot results, hearing and vision testing and immunisations can make a huge difference in terms of life chances, allowing appropriate interventions to support that child’s development and education.
Automating processes is vital when a third of London’s children have moved within six months of birth and are not living in the address that they are registered in with their GPs. - Kenny Gibson, head of public health commissioning NHS England (London)
CarePlus has minimised the manual data entry due to the direct interoperability with the key child health record and information systems (e.g. maternity, GP practices, bloodspot screening labs). The health records are added and updated automatically in CarePlus in a timely manner. Having one child health system across London has significantly improved tracking children’s movements and health records. - Marjan Daneshpour, head of information and South West London
Child Health Information Service lead, Your Healthcare CIC
Explore our extensive collection of case studies to discover more about our successful projects across multiple industries.
If you have any questions or need further information, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Our team of friendly experts are always ready to assist you.
News
The UK's leading case management solution for children's social care.
Case Studies
Pioneering use of System C’s CareFlow Clinical Noting function has enabled BRHC’s busy paediatric Emergency Department (ED) to reduce reliance on paper forms. These electronic processes have halved the time it takes to triage patients, ensuring care is directed rapidly at the sickest children.