Scouts support Northern Trust’s preparations for going digital

A group of Scouts from Co Antrim have secured their place in digital healthcare history and earned a ‘Community Impact’ badge for their efforts.

As the Northern Health and Social Care Trust prepares to go live with encompass on 7 November 2024, members of 1^st Cullybackey Scout Group lent a helping hand to get essential packs ready for staff, packing an amazing 2700 bags!

The Northern Trust will be the third HSC Trust in Northern Ireland to roll out the encompass system which will mean going paperless and creating a single digital healthcare record for every citizen instead.

Neil Martin, who is responsible for overseeing the encompass implementation in the Northern Trust, said: “Preparing for encompass is a huge Team North effort right across our Trust, and it’s fantastic to see our community getting involved too. The introduction of encompass in our Trust represents an important milestone in how we deliver health and social care for our local community, and these Explorers, Scouts and Cubs have made themselves part of that journey.

“We are very grateful to all the young people who gave of their time to help us pack bags which will be distributed among key staff as part of our encompass implementation plans. Quite simply, we couldn’t have done it without them and we want to say a massive thank you to the Scouts and their leaders for all their support.”

Lorraine McDowell from the 1^st Cullybackey Scout Group added: “The girls and boys really enjoyed being part of this activity. They were very enthusiastic and had a lot of fun in the process. We’re always looking for new projects that we can support within our local community, getting our Explorers, Scouts and Cubs real experience, and making a contribution at the same time, so this was right up our street.

“Some of the young people have parents and relatives working in the Trust so it has been a really great way of supporting their families and wider community, and being part of the rollout of this new system in the Northern Trust. It has been a very memorable experience for them all.”

encompass will transform how HSC Trusts deliver services; it will give staff and clinicians instant access to a patient’s care record, reducing time spent chasing records and completing paperwork.

It will provide real-time, up to date information to all those involved in caring for patients, empowering them to make efficient, effective, patient-centred decisions.

Patients and service users will also have the option of accessing their own health and social care records via a secure patient portal called ‘My Care’.

For more information and to stay up to date, visit www.northerntrust.hscni.net/encompass-is-coming-to-the-northern-trust/

 

 

 

 

 

 

16th October 2024