Makes accident reporting in schools quicker
How fast can you record an accident on Medical Tracker and notify a parent or carer?
We have put this to the test. Let's see if we can record a DfE compliant injury in under 30 secondsr using our incident reporting software.
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Record injuries and incidents online
Effectively record injuries using our school incident reporting system. Medical Tracker has many features to help staff to record injuries quickly.
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Easy-to-use incident recording software
The progression to online software can be daunting for some staff members, raising concerns about the level of technology needed to record injuries and incidents. Medical Tracker uses a simple drop-down box system to quickly record the injury, illness or incident in less than 30 seconds.
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Progress to paperless
Our incident reporting system software is DfE compliant with statutory first aid expectations for schools, including automated reporting of injuries to parents via email.
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Share recorded incidents with other staff
Use Medical Tracker’s internal communication feature to share a recorded incident with a staff member. Linked to your school’s MIS system, finding the contact of the staff member of choice couldn’t be easier.
Make school incident reporting easy
Our software streamlines the injury recording and reporting process, making your health and wellbeing management processes paperless and time effective.
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Effective use of staff time
Injuries and incidents in schools often happen during unstructured time (break and lunchtime). Staff have limited time to effectively record administered first aid in school, Medical Tracker speeds up the recording process with handy one-click drop down boxes.
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DfE compliant and accurate reporting
Your school is required to record certain aspects of first aid incidents, notify parents. Our free incident reporting template ensures every staff member records important pieces of information using a drop down box system.
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Create a variety of injury reports
Tripping over during a football game and grazing a knee is a different recorded injury to a child sustaining a minor head injury while using playground equipment. Medical Tracker’s insights and reporting feature allows school leaders to differentiate between bumps and scrapes and health and safety concerns across your school or MAT.
Make school incident reporting easy
Our software streamlines the injury recording and reporting process, making your health and wellbeing management processes paperless and time effective.
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Effective use of staff time
Injuries and incidents in schools often happen during unstructured time (break and lunchtime). Staff have limited time to effectively update incident recording books in school. Medical Tracker speeds up the recording process with handy one-click drop-down boxes.
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DfE compliant and accurate reporting
Your school is required to record certain aspects of injuries and incidents, and to notify parents. Our free incident reporting template ensures every staff member records important pieces of information using a drop down box system.
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Create a variety of injury reports
Tripping over during a football game and grazing a knee is a different recorded injury to a child sustaining a minor head injury while using playground equipment. Medical Tracker’s insights and reporting feature allows school leaders to differentiate between bumps and scrapes and health and safety concerns across your school or MAT.
Track pupil illness and injury
Recording all injuries and illnesses allows for trends to be highlighted easily, improving pupil attendance and supporting pupils with mental health concerns.
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Highlight pupils causing concern
Track possible patterns of illness or injury with frequently unwell children through online medical reports. Proactively monitoring potential safeguarding concerns in school and avoiding persistent absenteeism through analysing the root cause of avoidant behaviour.
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Reduce pupil time out of class
Recognise and analyse patterns of avoiding particular lessons with frequently ill children. Medical Tracker’s insights and reporting feature helps school leaders track patterns of illness with pupils.
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Share recorded injuries with staff
When a medical incident is recorded (including mental health concerns and near misses), staff can be notified of the incident. Medical Tracker helps to improve health communication across the school.
Reduce risks in the school setting
Recording and analysing near-miss incidents can help schools to be proactive in reducing injuries and damages. Near miss reports can highlight areas of danger or hazard across the school, identifying health and safety priorities.
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Record and monitor near miss incidents
Near miss incidents can range from mental health concerns of pupils to dangerous outdoor equipment use. By recording and monitoring near miss incidents, schools can make proactive changes to supervision rotas during unstructured times.
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School leadership tailored notifications
School leadership can tailor injury and incident notifications to receive only serious cases that may result in hospitalisation. In the event of a serious incident, witness statement templates are available via the online software.
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Record health and safety risks accurately
When staff input a near miss incident, they are asked a series of questions to ensure adequate information is recorded immediately following the incident via the online incident recording book.
Reduce risks in the school setting
Recording and analysing near-miss incidents can help schools to be proactive in reducing injuries and damages. Near miss reports can highlight areas of danger or hazard across the school, identifying health and safety priorities.
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Record and monitor near miss incidents
Near miss incidents can range from mental health concerns of pupils to dangerous outdoor equipment use. By recording and monitoring near miss incidents, schools can make proactive changes to supervision rotas during unstructured times.
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School leadership tailored notifications
School leadership can tailor injury and incident notifications to receive only serious cases that may result in hospitalisation. In the event of a serious incident, witness statement templates are available via the online software.
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Record health and safety risks accurately
When staff input a near miss incident, they are asked a series of questions to ensure adequate information is recorded immediately following the incident via the online incident recording book.
Record staff accidents and injuries
Accidents involving staff or visitors should be recorded to ensure good health and safety practices. Identifying the root cause of staff injuries or incidents can allow for proactive changes to avoid reoccurrences.
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RIDDOR compliance for school staff
It is a requirement of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1979, as amended, that organisations with 10 or more employees must keep records of all workplace accidents resulting in personal injury in an appropriate incident book in either paper or electronic form.
The recording and reporting of certain types of accidents and ill health at work is also a legal requirement under RIDDOR.
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Investigating staff or visitor incidents
Using Medical Tracker’s insights and reporting feature, vital information about staff or visitor incidents can be identified. The reports will include where, why and how the incident happened and who was involved, all useful for future risk management plans.
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Prevent accidents from reoccurring
The first step to preventing accidents from happening again is informing the right staff members within your school. Using our automated email alerts required staff can be notified as soon as an incident is recorded on Medical Tracker whether it is a student accident, near miss or staff and visitor incident.
Export to excel
With the necessary permissions, staff members can export all incident records to Excel - making creating custom reports quick and easy.
Confidential incidents
Privacy control over incidents means that only permitted staff members are able to view confidential information.
No paper records
Our incident recording software eliminates the need to keep and maintain paper records, and it allows instant access to information.
It helps me with our site manager and look at health and safety improvements. For example, In technology, the bulk of our injuries were eye injuries and it was through not wearing safety goggles. So we were able to locate what health and safety issues are happening in departments.
Judy Wilson
School Nurse, Kennet School
Parents receive instant notifications when incidents or medication administration are recorded. A full communication audit trail is saved. This helps parents feel that their child is well looked after at school- great for Ofsted!
Linda Hopper
Bursar,Bugbrooke Community Primary School
It's a really simple solution to a complex problem. I can't think why no one has come up with it before now. It’s also easy to get support and the system is being developed all the time.
Lynda Jackson
Senior Administrator & Finance Manager, Hawthorn Tree Primary School
Why schools love Medical Tracker
With simple to use drop-downs Medical Tracker enables schools to ensure the safeguarding of students by recording accurate information about their medication needs, health plans and first aid incidents.
Lisa Bub
ICT Officer
It's a really simple solution to a complex problem. I can't think why no one has come up with it before now. It’s also easy to get support and the system is being developed all the time.