People in Greater Manchester are set to receive more personalised care through a newly launched digital care plan and a patient-facing app ‘My GM Care’ – further enhancing the GM Care Record, which shares vital health information for GM’s 2.8m population to inform better care and treatment.
Digital care plans for dementia and heart failure have been developed in the GM Care Record to enable clinical teams from GP practices, hospital and social care to be able to view a person’s agreed care plan and personal preferences.
A patient facing ‘My GM Care’ app is also being launched, which allows patients to contribute to the care plans, self-record blood pressure, weight and mood, and share personal information with care professionals, with the aim of improving care quality, supporting people to take control of their health, and ensuring the wishes of each patient are respected.
Both products are being tested in Tameside and Glossop, with further roll out planned across Greater Manchester, as part of a collaboration between NHS Greater Manchester, Health Innovation Manchester and tech supplier Graphnet.
The GM Care Record, provides health and social care professionals with vital information for 2.8m people in Greater Manchester. Accessible via electronic patient record systems, the platform provides a single source of truth for everyone involved in a patient’s care. Over 275,000 patient records are accessed by 21,000 health and care professionals each month to provide more informed care.
Dementia wellbeing and heart failure care plans are the latest in a series of care plans, including frailty and end of life, that make it easier for everyone involved in a patient’s care to have up to date information and standardise care provision in a region beset by health inequalities and some of the lowest life expectancy in England.
Access to digital care plans transforms largely reactive services that only respond when required, to more proactive services that centre on the needs of each patient. Ad-hoc paper-based processes are replaced with standardised digital plans that can be utilised across care settings via the GM Care Record. These plans enhance continuity of care across settings and improving the patient, carer and clinician experience.
The digital care plans were developed by Health Innovation Manchester in collaboration with Graphnet, Dementia United and the Pumping Marvellous Foundation, the UK’s heart failure charity.
