GP Access
to GHNHSFT’s Electronic Patient Record (EPR)
Following
approval by the ICS Clinical Advisory Group, it has been agreed to rapidly roll
out GP access to GHNHSFT’s Electronic Patient Record (EPR) by means of secure
direct access to the hospital clinical system known as Sunrise EPR. The main
driver behind this is so that practices can have real-time data of patients
being discharged from hospital and, in particular, those who are COVID-19 positive
and who may need further follow up in the short term. It will also allow GPs to
follow a patient’s journey through the hospital if admitted with COVID-19 and
to have knowledge as to whether their patient is in a ward or in critical care;
this will clearly allow the practice to support the relevant family if
appropriate.
This is very
much an offer to practices and is not something that is being mandated although
we do believe that all practices will find this potentially invaluable and so
we strongly encourage uptake.
If practices
are interested it would be helpful if a GP lead could be identified so that
there could be a named contact within the practice for GHNHSFT’s IT team to
liaise with. Could each nominated GP lead please contact Kevin Gannaway-Pitts in the CSU Primary Care Digital Transformation
Team, in order to progress this further if so wished.
This is an
important short term step to support practices in managing patients with
COVID-19 in GHNHSFT or those recently discharged. GHNHSFT are committed to
providing documentation electronically to practices such as discharge letters
and outpatient letters and are actively working to enable this functionality as
soon as possible. It is envisaged that this will be available shortly and we
are working with the Trust to identify a date.
In addition, GHNHSFT and the JUYI team are working
together to get Trakcare and ICE data into JUYI, which will be supported by the
development of a link in EMIS and TPP to launch JUYI directly from the patient
record within the clinical system.
Electronic
Prescription Service (EPS) Phase 4 now available for EMIS practices
With TPP
sites now completed, this article concerns the switch on of EPS4 for EMIS
practices. The key change with EPS4 is that the default route for all eligible
prescriptions will be electronic. Where no nomination is in place (or the
patient chooses not to use their nomination on that occasion) the patient will
be given a token to take to an NHS England commissioned dispenser of their
choice.
The
prescription will be electronically signed and sent to the Spine. The
prescribing system will default to print a token, which will be given to the
patient if they were present, to take to a pharmacy of their choice. In
scenarios where the patient is not present and cannot collect the token, they
can still go to a pharmacy to ask them to download and dispense the
prescription.
The EMIS page link with instructions on how an EMIS practice goes live with EPS4 has now been populated on the NHS Digital EPS
Phase 4 website and can be found on G-Care