Laptops
and associated equipment
The Digital
Transformation team distributed further new laptops to practices last week and
is now reviewing additional equipment requirements. A number of factors in
relation to video consultation equipment are being worked through. The team are
also finalising Away from my Desk and desktop licences with the supplier, so
may be in touch with practices about this in the near future.
Health and
Social Care Networks update
In issue 49
on 20 April, we advised that there had been delays with the delivery of health
and social care networks (HSCN). NHS Digital and BT have now agreed to escalate
installation timescales for practices in Gloucestershire, and BT will be
working with BT Openreach to install new network lines into practices over the
next couple of weeks. Practices are asked to be as flexible as possible to
accommodate engineers carrying out this work. In order to maximise engineer
resources in an area, it is not always possible for BT Openreach to notify
practices of their visit in advance; for example, if an engineer finishes early
at a practice, they may move on to a nearby practice. If an engineer does turn
up unannounced, please notify the Countywide IT Service as soon as possible on 07752
020261. The project team will, however, endeavour to give practices as much
notification as possible of appointments.
FAO TPP
practices only – to support bulk upload of Summary Care Records (AIs)
TPP have been
asked to upload Summary Care Records (SCR) Additional Information to patients’
SCRs without changing SCR consent preferences. While this rule has been
implemented and over 17 million patients now have an enriched SCR, the
overnight upload process only works if the practice has their ‘Gateway PC’
open. TPP have found a number of
scheduled practices have closed their gateways and the upload cannot take
place, which has slowed the overall upload rate for the TPP estate. To help
support the bulk upload, TPP would like to request that Gloucestershire TPP GP
practices ensure their gateway PCs are left running overnight to support the
successful process for uploading SCRs.