Coates Community Primary School

Overview

Coates Community Primary School is a local village school on the outskirts Peterborough. Coates Community is a friendly, one-form entry pre-school and primary school. Coming from a paper-based accident book school, Stephanie Brown (School Business Manager) was introduced to Medical Tracker when she joined the school. She shares her experiences and how Coates maximises effectiveness.

Let’s look at how Medical Tracker can be used from pre-school to year 6.

What problems does Medical Tracker solve?

• Removes the need for paper-based duplicate record books for accidents across the school.
• Saves staff time when recording first aid incidents. The drop-down boxes for recording an incident are quick and easy to complete whilst staying DfE Health and Safety compliant.
• Parents are automatically informed of injuries and the medical care their child has received.
• Pupils’ personal data and medical information is secure due to individual staff log-ins.

How is Medical Tracker used across the school?

Coates Community Primary School use Medical Tracker to record and track first aid and injury incidents across the school, from pre-school to year 6. All staff are given a demo (delivered by Stephanie) and have their own log-ins.

• Stephanie creates reports for governors, monitoring what is happening across the school. These reports show how the leadership team is proactive with Health and Safety across the school.
• Recorded first aid incidents are monitored to highlight frequent visitors, helping to spot trends of lessons missed and regular injuries or mental health concerns with pupils.
• A bigger picture understanding of first aid events is possible by linking other children who are implicated in the incident using the software.

What impact has Medical Tracker had on first aid provision?

• Stephanie and the leadership team can evaluate and review serious incidents that occur for pupils, staff and visitors (RIDDOR compliant).
• Removal of time-consuming conversations to gather pupil information across the staff team.
• No more missed communication opportunities (across the staff team and from school to home).
• More efficient use due to multiple users accessing the online accident book simultaneously.

Recommendation

"Parents are informed straight away and we know when they have accessed the notification too. We would definitely recommend Medical Tracker!" Business Manager at Coates Community Primary School.