Communication between Midwifery, Health Visitors and Family Nurse Partnership has now been simplified.
An overhaul of the way the Midwifery service refers 28 week Antenatal notifications and Postnatal handovers of care to Health Visiting and Family Nurse Partnership simplified the process on Wednesday, 01 March.
A new electronic interface between Badgernet and Morse is now making the referral and patient notes handover process far easier.
As a result, the Badgernet/Morse Interface enables the absorption of specific files to be sent from Badgernet to Morse eliminating the need for them to be added manually.
Pauline Wyatt, senior nurse, Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire, said: “This change is far more efficient and supports a more robust record keeping system ensuring essential files are attached to Morse at the point of handover.
“Moira Mooney, digital midwife has led this project and it appears we’re the only board operating this way so credit to Moira for having us advanced to this stage already.
“It’s good to get a more effective and user friendly system in place for exchanging sensitive information.
“I’m sure staff will quickly see the benefits; all the teams concerned work well together so I’m confident this move will be seamless.
“It will also ensure we can focus our attention on the people who use our services while knowing we have easy access to all the information we need.”
