By Steve Ranger, 19 January 2006 14:25
NEWS
GP2GP
GP2GP allows patient records to be electronically transferred to a new practice when a patient moves to a new doctor.
At the moment, records get printed out and posted - and then retyped at the other end. Electronic transfers will be more accurate and secure - and much faster than the current paper-based approach, which can take up to six weeks to complete.
What progress so far?
In November the first live transfer took place as part of a trial of the system. The record was transferred from the Whickham Health Centre practice to the Chainbridge House practice, both in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, via the Spine.
NHS Connecting for Health said the project team is now in the early stages of proving this solution "and are moving at a measured pace".
Comments
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1. anonymous
Um, interesting. Some points raised differ from what the reality.
Trusts are being pushed into CRS with no reguard to existing functionality or cost of moving to the new system.
Choose and Book is a complete failure, with all rollouts being stopped in our area, and existing users being told that they can stop using the system if they want to.
The N3 rollout success depends on what you mean by connected. BT have a different meaning of that phrase than most.
PACS is in, and working with a few glitches. The project was painfull however.
Setting users up on the Spine is a slow and painfull business, with a lot of resistance from users.
The Contact email system is slow and clumbersom, and not very user friendly.
You have missed of a few major national projects, such as the Electronic Staff Record, Shares Business Service and Integrated Comunity Equipment Services, all heading for their own show stopping problems if we're not carefull.
Overall, a nightmare for NHS IT Staff.
2. anonymous
Haven't seen any evidence of this in use yet.
3. matthew
How do you find out which IT companies are involved in these NHS -IT projects like choose and book? there seems to be problems with payment that is affecting accenture, but i can't find out or see who the other companies affected are - so its hard to judge if its bad NHS management of projects, or poor delivery by the companies that is the problem?
what does everyone else think on this issue?