GP2GP hits 100,000 transfers

Tags: CfH EMIS GP GP2GP GPs Hampshire INPS PCT Vision

10 Apr 2008

Connecting for Health has announced that GP2GP has now completed over 100,000 electronic health record transfers.

To date, 149 primary care trusts - more than 4,000 practices - are using the clinical systems EMIS LV 5.2 and INPS Vision 3 to transfer records between GP practices.

GP2GP enables patients' electronic health records to be transferred directly and securely between GP practices.

It is designed to improve patient care, as GPs will usually have full and detailed medical records available to them for a new patient's first consultation.

CfH said that Hampshire PCT has so far performed the highest level of GP2GP record transfers.

Dr Simon Sherwin, a GP at Waterfront Garden Surgery, in Hampshire said: “We've been active with GP2GP for about six months now. I have to say that when we receive notes this way it is tremendously fast and in most cases the electronic record is received by the next working day.

“Notes from the same clinical system integrate seamlessly - the beauty is that all the electronic information is there.”

Further suppliers and software products will be joining the roll out at a later date and the benefits of the system will be increasingly realised as more and more practices become GP2GP-enabled, CfH added.

Reader's Comments

Yes, but what about the paper?

14 Apr 08 12:04

I keep asking this question, and the silence is resounding. Can anybody tell me what happens with the paper record (i.e., the Lloyd George envelope and its contents) when a GP2GP electronic record transfer has taken place?

Sent on

14 Apr 08 13:04

The Lloyd George packet gets sent to the new GP practice in the usual way, arriving a few weeks later. The receiving GP would be wise to read though the Lloyd George notes as so often crucial diagnoses/operations are not on the electronic record.

GP2GP and Paper

andy.hadley@ferndown.nhs.uk

14 Apr 08 13:04

The CfH website does have the following advice, though if the electronic response (and patient attendance) is immediate, and the paper comes some days later, I am not sure how practices may choose to handle it :

Will the paper record still need to be transferred once GP2GP has been implemented in a practice?

Yes, the transfer of paper records (including a print-out of any electronic records held together with attached documents) alongside EHRs will continue for the foreseeable future, for a number of reasons: - EHRs for direct patient care are not used across 100% of patients. - A full paper record is required in case the patient subsequently transfers to a practice that is not GP2GP enabled. - There is a need to validate EHRs against paper records. - The NHAIS deduction process will still run separately from GP2GP transfers. It remains the responsibility of the sending practice to ensure that the paper record is complete before releasing it from the practice following the normal deductions process.

From page 4 of http://tinyurl.com/6pkxyc

Yes, but what about the paper?

hilldunnassoc@btinternet.com

15 Apr 08 08:04

Thank you for the replies above. Now I understand!