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Shared Care Record Achieves Highest Amount of Usage to Date

More and more health and social care staff in South Yorkshire are using the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record (YHCR) to support local people’s care and treatment. 

Between September and November 2025, user logins to the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record (YHCR) platform rose by 25%. The number of patient records accessed also saw significant growth, increasing by 40% from September to November. A significant milestone is that November saw the highest usage since inception, with 15,330 records accessed, helping health and social care staff have information when they need it, to provide better care.

The YHCR, powered by Interweave technology, brings together people’s separate records into a structured format. This gives health and care professionals directly involved in an individual’s care a more complete view of the care and treatment that an individual has received across all services. The shared care record platform securely connects information from hospitals, GPs, mental health services and social care providers, ensuring professionals have the most up-to-date information when they need it.

The YHCR is being rolled out via the South Yorkshire Shared Care Record (SYSCR) Programme, part of the national Connecting Care Records initiative. Currently, there are 13 local NHS organisations and local authorities, as well as all GP practices, involved in advancing the programme in South Yorkshire, across the Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield areas.

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield City Council had the largest numbers of staff in November using the YHCR and accessing records. All three organisations saw significant increases compared to usage in September.

Katie Dowson, programme director of the SYSCR Programme, said: “There has been some great work taking place by partners to roll-out the YHCR to colleagues within their organisations. Every month, more data is being added into the shared care record platform and more staff members are accessing it for the purpose of improving the care and treatment of individuals. Staff are seeing the benefits in terms of saving time looking up information that previously they may have waited to receive in posted letters or had to make phone calls to other services. By being able to quickly obtain a more holistic view of an individual, they can then provide better quality and more appropriate care and support.”