What is the YHCR?

The YHCR provides local people with access to their health and care information and encourages them to be more involved in looking after their health. The YHCR was created to help GPs, doctors, nurses and care practitioners to access and share your up-to-date clinical information by accessing data held by multiple health and care settings from a single care record.

Shared Care Record

More informed decisions, improved self care and management

People actively involved in their health and wellbeing

View, control and contribute to their own health and wellbeing information by accessing a Person Held Record.

Population Health Management

Better decision making and saving time
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Integrated Care Record

Enables clinical and care staff to access real-time health and care information across health and social care providers and between different IT systems, securely and safely.

Analytics

Better planning of services, prevention or improved management of ill health

Improved intelligence

Using intelligence from large scale data sets to improve population health. Centralised data on patient health and wellbeing on the services they use.

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Who does the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record work with?

Yorkshire and Humber region was awarded one of five exemplar positions on the NHS Local Health Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE) programme. The programme’s objective was to integrate health and care records across the region with the aim of improving care by providing timely and relevant information to care professionals and local people securely and safely.

All the organisations and staff involved provide health and care for approximately 5.8 million people living across the Yorkshire and Humber region.

“As a clinician working in the emergency department then we have seen the benefits of the ambulance service transfer of care documents becoming readily available in our Electronic Health Record. In the future we will realise the benefits of sharing wider information including alerts, diagnosis and discharge letters. This will improve both the quality and safety of care we deliver in our clinical services.”
Dr Andy Webster, Consultant in Emergency Medicine & CCIO, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trusts