e-discharge

Archive
9 November 2017

‘Why we need set standards’, explains PRSB chair Maureen Baker

Professional Records Standard Body newly appointed chief exec explains the importance of setting care record standards across the healthcare system.
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10 November 2016

E-discharge standards to GPs ‘poor’

Central NHS organisations are rebooting attempts to improve communication between emergency departments and GPs, with the ‘perpetual winter’ crisis now
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14 March 2016

E-discharge: standard clinical headings required by Dec

All NHS providers must send digital discharge summaries to GPs using standard clinical headings by December this year, the new
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10 February 2016

E-discharge uptake revealed by DMI

EXCLUSIVE: Around two thirds of NHS trusts are sharing discharge summaries electronically with GPs and one fifth are prescribing electronically,
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12 November 2015

E-discharge: unmonitored target defended

The October target for all providers to send discharge letters electronically is not being monitored nationally, but has focused attention
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12 November 2015

E-discharge: Nottinghamshire junks faxes

Some Nottinghamshire GPs have used the October e-discharge target to stop receiving faxes altogether, forcing all providers to adopt electronic
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6 July 2015

October target for e-discharge

EXCLUSIVE: NHS providers must send discharge summaries to GPs electronically by October this year, NHS England has said.
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27 September 2013

St Helens does e-discharges

St. Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is sending all of its discharge summaries to GPs electronically.
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9 August 2013

Wales adds medication to e-discharge

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is trialling a new module of the Welsh Clinical Portal which automatically adds a
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4 June 2013

Royal Berks connects with GPs

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is sending discharge letters to GPs across eight clinical commissioning groups using PCTI’s Electronic Document
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