Stocksbridge High School

Overview

Stocksbridge High School is a mixed secondary school, which is a part of the Minerva Learning Trust, based in South Yorkshire. Stocksbridge introduced Medical Tracker across the school to remove the need for paper-based accident books or using a dreaded Excel spreadsheet to try to track first aid data. Lisa, the School Business Manager, shares how Medical Tracker is implemented across their school.

“Having all the pupils’ medical data in one place is so much easier than using an Excel spreadsheet or paper record book”

What problems does Medical Tracker solve?

• Stocksbridge High School has more than 850 pupils on roll. Making recording and monitoring incidents and injuries effectively a challenge. Medical Tracker removes the need for paper-based systems with all medical, first aid and incident recording being in one place.
• Staff can now access important medical information about first aid incidents that have occurred throughout the day, previous medical history and patterns and parent contact information. Reducing the communicative interactions with the back-office team.
• Lisa can easily create reports for governors and the senior leadership team of the Minerva Learning Trust. She can monitor the health and safety aspects of incident recording, tracking hotspots and trends.

Medical Tracker for schools

Stocksbridge High School use Medical Tracker across the whole school, recording and reporting accidents and near-miss incidents easily. The training provided for Lisa when she joined the school was helpful and her transition to using the online software was seamless.

What impact has Medical Tracker had on first aid provision?

• Injury trends and patterns can be highlighted easily.
• All staff are now included with the first aid recording system, making it a consistent approach across the school.
• A cost-effective way to stay DfE compliant for health and safety and first aid.