Discharge letters Archives

21 June 2017

West Suffolk identifies data errors in discharge summaries

West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has identified technical problems in its Cerner EPR, known locally as e-care, leading to

28 February 2014

Hinchingbrooke sends electronic letters

Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust has reduced the time it takes GPs to receive trust letters from two weeks to

18 June 2010

Ipswich develops stroke data portal

The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust has developed its own software to enable staff to record patient data for stroke patients

16 February 2010

CQC raises discharge concerns

Almost 50% of GPs are not receiving discharge summaries from acute trusts in time for them to be useful, according

19 January 2010

Call for Toolkit discharge standards

NHS Connecting for Health has invited suppliers to help develop and test standards for electronic discharge summaries in an extension

11 December 2009

Stalis standalone e-discharge summary

Stalis has launched a clinical e-discharge solution to allow NHS trusts that do not have discharge summary functionality built into

24 November 2009

Discharge summary target ‘to be missed’

The vast majority of NHS hospitals look set to miss the government’s target for delivering discharge summaries to GP practices

16 October 2009

Cheshire trusts send e-discharge letters

Three acute trusts are delivering electronic discharge letters to almost 90 GP practices using a shared IT solution that plugs

5 October 2009

Readers back reformed NPfIT

The National Programme should not be scrapped although it should be reformed, a major survey by E-Health Insider and Doctors.net.uk

23 September 2008

Consent to view explored for detailed records

The new consent to view model for the NHS Summary Care Record in England may also be applied to the