Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and Trafford Go Live with New Child Health System

System CNearly half a million children's health records across Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and Trafford have been successfully integrated onto a new child health information system to support services in each area.

The four boroughs have joined the Greater Manchester CarePlus system provided by System C that already covers other parts of the region. The go-live means nine of the ten CCG areas in Greater Manchester are now using the system for a unified source of information whilst caring for and safeguarding child residents.

System C's CarePlus solution is a complex system that integrates with various systems and services and supports the child health service with birth registrations, screening and immunisation programmes, and the Healthy Child Programme.

Over 491,000 children's records from the legacy PARIS system were successfully migrated. The process also included merging over 229,000 records where children were registered on both PARIS and CarePlus and changing the data from the PARIS file formats to the CarePlus upload formats.

Extending the Greater Manchester child health system to Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and Trafford has increased the total number of children’s records managed by the CarePlus system across the region to 1,366,071.

Paula Markham, head of operational informatics, Northern Care Alliance NHS Group said: "Bringing Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and Trafford on board the Greater Manchester child health information system and creating a larger footprint with a single system will strengthen the service for children and parents as well as better supporting our colleagues across the regions.

"We are using CarePlus to provide care professionals with an accurate, comprehensive and up to date electronic record for every child in the areas, at the point of care, by integrating information from maternity providers, blood spot screening labs, health visitor teams and newborn hearing programme providers."

Markus Bolton, joint chief executive of System C, said: "The Northern Care Alliance and the System C CarePlus team have worked well together to keep this project on track through the challenging national circumstances.

"The project was time-critical as the PARIS system was being turned off at the end of 2020 and Covid-19 lockdown restrictions added further challenges, including having to remain off-site. It's always great to see successful programmes like this one, joining up health and care and improving services for populations, but particularly so under the current conditions."

About System C

System C is the UK's leading health and social care software supplier. Its products include the CareFlow (formerly Medway) electronic patient record and associated products, mobile clinical support solutions, CarePlus Child Health and the Liquidlogic range of social care software.

System C is part of the System C & Graphnet Care Alliance, a strategic alliance offering IT solutions that allow for the integration of health and social care services across whole care communities and STP areas.

Our solutions use leading-edge technologies - including mobile, wearables, instant messaging and machine learning - to radically redesign services and the way clinicians and patients interact together.

About the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Group brings together four hospitals, specialist and acute services, a range of associated community healthcare services, and over 19,000 staff across Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

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