Interweave has announced a partnership with the Dorset Care Record and has continued expansion of the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record.
The Interweave Partnership, recently shortlisted as a finalist in the Partnership of the Year category for the HTN Awards 2026, reportedly now supports seven NHS regions and more than ten million people.
Ian Clucas, deputy CIO at Interweave, noted being “thrilled” to welcome the region to the partnership, adding: “It has been a positive experience working with our colleagues in Dorset over the past months, who share our vision of providing digitally enhanced and inclusive care.”
Part of Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, and delivered by an in-house team, Interweave is built on open-source code, with its IP owned by the NHS. “By working together with several integrated care systems across the NHS landscape nationally, the Interweave Partnership enables better care coordination to improve the health and social care outcomes for people across the country,” it states.
The company recently celebrated a new landmark for the YHCR in South Yorkshire as the monthly number of records accessed broke through the 30,000 mark for the first time in July at 31,772, 17 percent increase on the previous month.
“The continual increase in the numbers of health and care staff accessing the YHCR is pleasing and demonstrates how more and more individuals and teams are realising the benefits of being able to view a more detailed picture of the person they are caring for,” said Katie Dowson, South Yorkshire Shared Care Record programme director. “We are keen to see this positive trend continue, with greater utilisation of the YHCR helping to underpin the delivery of high-quality, integrated care across South Yorkshire.”
A new FHIR integration has also granted the ability for health and care professionals to access NHS 111 information from Yorkshire Ambulance Service via the YHCR, with data from the service’s computer aided dispatch system being fed into the Interweave architecture.
This data covers patient demographics, presenting complaints and symptoms, clinical assessment summaries, NHS 111 triage outcomes and dispositions, referrals to other services, and escalations or follow-up actions. According to Interweave, this is hoped to offer a better understanding of a patient’s urgent care journey, supporting faster clinical decision making, and improving continuity of care.
Ola Zahran, CTO at Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said: “With enriched patient information now being available to ambulance clinicians to support assessment and treatment, this means that patients will benefit from more joined-up, safer care.”
Wider trend: Health records
The board of Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board has highlighted its focus on scoping a business case for an integrated health record, and has set out work on its new digital and data strategy. Board approval was granted back in July of 2024 to proceed with the preparation of relevant documentation to find a strategic partner for the delivery of a modular electronic patient record, the health board states. A focus for the digital and data team is now the scoping of a business case for an integrated health record “complemented by a digitally enabled patient centred contact programme”.
Mid and South Essex (MSE) ICB’s annual report has highlighted uses of digital across the system, including the expansion of the shared care record, which has now been embedded system-wide, granting access to patient records for teams across acute, primary care, mental health, community services, social care, and hospices. More than 23,500 user accounts have been created, 1.6 million patient summaries have been viewed, 2.5 million documents have been accessed, and there are reportedly between 4,000 and 5,200 weekly active users. The programme has delivered productivity benefits including £4.7 million in efficiencies through admissions avoided, fewer DNAs, and time savings for clinical and care staff, according to the ICB.
The Australian Digital Health Agency has moved to introduce new mandated interoperability standards for connections to its My Health Record platform, with hopes to support sharing of health information across care settings. Under the new standards, AU Core and the Australian Core Data for Interoperability (AU CDI) will become the national baseline for FHIR connections to My Health Record, with agency CEO Amanda Cattermole stating: “By establishing a national baseline for interoperability, we are supporting better clinical governance, reducing legacy complexity, strengthening clinical safety by reducing variation in how health information is captured, shared and used and helping create a safer, more connected digital health system for all Australians.”
