1. Building the Digital Partnership, 27th March 2017
31/12/2018
New Maternity System
Building the Digital Partnership, 27th March 2017
Jim Rae
Jacqueline Ferguson
eHealth Directorate

3. Overview Why are we doing this? What will the new system deliver?
Changes and Opportunities

4. Current position 16000 birth per year 3 Maternity Units
Lack of a single electronic Maternity record
Large duplication of data entry in both paper records and electronic systems
Different sites have different processes

5. Our New System… Designed as a paperless end to end Maternity system
Will record the pregnancy from booking appointment right through to post-natal home visits
Fully supports care pathway management to provide flow between care plans, assessments, reports, management plans
Supports our move away from paper processes
In use in 7 other Scottish Health Boards

6. Additional Features
Native iPad app for clinical use as well as desktop version
Patient Portal
Planned interfaces to strategic systems – demographics, test results, etc
Data entered once and then shared
Comprehensive reporting suite as well potential link to GGC BI Repository (Ref: Business Intelligence Presentation)

7. Referrals from Maternity Services
Referral and follow-up letter to patients GP’s
Internal or external clinical specialist
Social Work
Internal or external agencies including Parental Support and Domestic Violence referrals
Handover to Health Visitor
Electronic transfers from system are supported
(Ref: SCI Gateway Presentation)

8. GIRFEC Fully comprehensive GIRFEC Assessment screens
Records and scores all GIRFEC Strengths and Risks assessments on at least 3 occasions over the pregnancy and can report the chronology of the events
Electronic document transfers from the system are supported (ref:SCI Gateway Presentation)

9. Project Timeline Contracts still being finalised
Programme Board in place
Project Governance agreed and Project team identified
April 2017 target for Project initiation
Go Live within 12 months

10. Benefits Realisation Single electronic maternity record
Integrated with other GG&C strategic systems to form part of patient electronic record
Single way of working for all sites in GG&C
Reducing paper records and duplication of data entry and effort
Potential to be able to access and share maternity records from other Boards – e.g NHS Lanarkshire
Single Scottish Maternity system?

11. Jacqueline Ferguson
Maternity System eHealth Lead
NHSGG&C
Jim Rae
SDPM Specialist Applications, Strategy and Programmes
Scott Douglas
eHealth Programme Manager

12. Questions / Discussion