DCCR FAQs

Yes. This is part of a national strategy to digitally provide more joined up and coordinated care for individuals. There is a longer-term goal of linking shared care systems up, allowing professionals delivering care to see an individual’s... Read More

For health and care professionals to be provided access to the Devon and Cornwall Care Record, they will need to have an account requested by an authorised sponsor in their organisations. The organisation itself will have needed to sign a Data... Read More

This depends on the organisation. For General Practice, the data shared is through an existing product called the Medical Interoperability Gateway: Detailed Care Record | Healthcare Gateway | Interoperability Specialists. For other organisations, the... Read More

The Devon and Cornwall Care Record is being delivered as a joint programme by the Integrated Care System (ICS) for Devon and Cornwall and the Isle of Scilly.   A multidisciplinary team from across both ICS's are working together to safely... Read More

Data will be received from provider organisation in near real-time, the exception being the daily demographic update that will be received overnight from the Patient Demographic Service (PDS). Read More

For most health and care staff access will be gained through their own clinical system, using launch in context functionality. This means that from the persons record in their own clinical system they will be able to open the persons record in the... Read More

There is no mandatory training required to be completed by users before they use the system.   There are short how-to training guides (video and website content) available to all users.   Consumer organisations can use the same training material... Read More

There are no user licensing costs for organisations.    There may be costs involved with an organisation providing data. This depends on how information can be shared with the Devon and Cornwall Care Record.   There may also be costs involved in... Read More

The Devon and Cornwall Care Record has the capability to transform health and care across the region.    First and foremost, it will improve the overall quality of care for patients. Having an instant view of patients’ overall history will... Read More

There will be an ongoing roadmap for the development of the DCCR. This will include providing further information from participating organisations, onboarding consumer organisations and adding further functionality onto the system. The programme team... Read More