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1,000th GP Practice implements SystmOne |
Electronic health records system aims to centre care around the patient rather than the organisation.
Leicester Broadhurst Street has become the 1,000th GP practice to implement the new electronic health records system SystmOne.
The system, part of CSC’s strategic primary care solution, is developed by TPP and delivered under the NHS National Programme for IT. It is available under the Local Service Provider contract to GP practices across the North, Midlands and East.
SystmOne enables GPs to share clinical information through a single patient record and supports the NHS vision to centre care around the patient rather than the organisation, enabling collaborative working across all primary care settings. The shared patient record, containing the full medical history, provides the GPs with decision support, giving their patients confidence that informed decisions are beening made about their care.
With the complete record accessible at the point of care, the patient does not have to repeat information, helping to reduce duplication of medical activities, improving patient safety and reducing medical risk.
Dr. Simon Freeman, Director of Information and Corporate Performance for NHS Leicester City and NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland said: “It will ensure people have to tell their story just once and support healthcare professionals by storing all relevant information on a patient safely and securely.”
Under the new system, patient records are accessible in real-time to authorised users with a legitimate clinical relationship to the patient. As a centrally hosted solution, data is stored in a secure data centre with a robust business continuity and disaster recovery capability that safeguards against data loss in the event of fire, flood, theft or other disruptions.
The solution now supports the care of over 14 million patients in England, through 47,000 users carrying out over 1.2 million patient consultations per month. The system has been developed over ten years to support the changing needs of the NHS and it is the only integrated primary care solution deployed at such scale.
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