PRIMIS + launches data discussion board

Tags: Community Contract Data quality GPs Informatics Quality

10 Oct 2008

PRIMIS+ has set up an online discussion board to raise awareness of common issues and publicise best practice amongst those using shared records.

The Data Recording board, which is receiving funding from PRIMIS’ “core budget”, is open to all PRIMIS+ facilitators and anyone who is recording or using community data. Users must first register to post comments.

PRIMIS+, which is parts of Nottingham Universities Primary Care Information Service, was set up in April 2002 as a free training and support service to help GPs and their staff to improve patient care, using the data in their clinical computer systems.

The organisation was expanded in 2005, after being awarded of a four year contract by NHS Connecting for Health.

PRIMIS+ focuses on supporting data quality facilitators employed by primary care trusts and health informatics services, who then “cascade” their skills to GPs and practice-based staff.

The organisation hopes that the new discussion board will help it to better understand the specific guidance and training materials needed to support community teams and other staff.

Issues raised on the board may also inform future guidance on the way data is entered into clinical records.

According to PRIMIS, there are no further plans to develop the service. “We will see how it goes and how popular it is,” a spokeswoman for the organisation told EHI Primary Care.

“At the moment, the logistics are being set up. We hope to advertise the service more in the future and get more people using it,” she added.

Link

http://forum.primis.nottingham.ac.uk/

Reader's Comments

a very welcome development

maryhawking@tigers.demon.co.uk

14 Oct 08 19:10

I suspect that this refers mainly to community and other non-GP users of SystmOne - so to NME rather than the whole of England. GPs have taken up tp 20 years to become familiar with Read Code and data entry in EPRs: it has always seemed unreasonable to expect community and other staff, whose record keeping requirements are very different from those of GPs, to be able to conform to Good Practice Guidelines for General Practice EPRs without education or training and nowhere to discuss the problems they *will* encounter! (I'm a GP - trust me - been there - done it - got the teeshirt!) have a look at http://nww.bradfordairedale-pct.nhs.uk/Primary+Care+Contractors/ Care+records+service/Changes+to+local+Record+Sharing.htm Things can only get more complicated.. which in itself creates risks additional to those already identified.

PRIMIS+ Community Discussion Board for all Community system users

dai.evans@primis.nottingham.ac.uk

17 Oct 08 13:10

PRIMIS (Primary Care Information Services) started in April 2000 (not 2002), and is delivered by a team based in the University of Nottingham’s Division of Primary Care. The main PRIMIS+ Discussion Board was set up in 2001; an IM&T DES discussion forum started in August 2006; the new community discussion board is the latest addition. The discussion boards are a facility that PRIMIS+ hosts as a free service to promote the sharing of best practice and understanding about developments in primary care informatics. In response to Mary Hawking, this project is not about TPP & SystmOne. It is about all users of Community software, whether they use SystmOne, Lorenzo, Vision or EMISWeb. It is pertinent to current and future users of Community Systems all over England and is hoping to assist them in developing their essential health informatics knowledge. Dr Dai EVans, Clinical Director, PRIMIS+