How Does the SBR Work?
The Scottish Birth Record (SBR) is an incremental record collected as close to real time as possible by various members of staff. There are two separate yet linked modules to the SBR system.
- The clinical module - completed by midwifery, neonatal and paediatric staff as well as ward clerks where appropriate. This then feeds the relevant data items into the smaller coding module
- The coding module - the record is then checked, amended if required and added to by medical records staff. Note that any amendments to clinical data items other than to demographics and episode management do not change the entries on the clinical module. The medical records staff then add any diagnostic (ICD10) or procedural (OPCS4) codes if appropriate and submit the record to the National central database held in Edinburgh.
Main Features include:
- Use of NHSNet for real-time national data collection
- Data can be collected incrementally from booking through to neonatal discharge
- Ability to register a baby with CHI shortly after birth
- Use of web-based technology allowing "instant" updating of data fields
- Concept of central storage of data with peripheral ownership whereby a central organisation maintains the hardware and the software in a single store, but the users have access to a partitioned area with their own data
- Ability to transfer/send records to another midwifery / neonatal unit in Scotland in order to mirror the physical patient
- The use of coding staff to scrutinise and correct data entered by clinical staff
- The direct transfer of data from hospitals' own systems to a national system
- Provision of instant access for peripheral users to spreadsheets containing their own data
For further information please click on: Access & Maintenance 
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