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GP Connect support for the COVID-19 vaccination
GP Connect is helping with appointment management for the COVID-19 vaccination programme.
View our support for the COVID-19 vaccination guidance.
Join our webinars to find out how to set up your clinical system.
The service makes patient medical information available to all appropriate clinicians when and where they need it to support direct patient care, leading to improvements in both care and outcomes.
We're helping primary care organisations share appointments with the CCAS, Extended Access Hubs and NHS 111 to meet targets set out in the GMS contract around direct booking.
97% of GP practices in England can now use:
- Access Record: HTML which allows clinicians to view a read-only version of the patient’s detailed GP practice record
- Appointment Management which allows organisations to share and manage their appointments to support joined up patient care
We’re also seeing the benefits of the service in secondary care where access to a patient’s GP records is helping clinicians improve decisions and save time. Find out more about GP Connect progress.
We’re getting ready to deliver the following additional functionality across all GP clinical systems:
- the capacity to import or download data on a patient’s medicines and allergies with Access Record: Structured
- Send Document allows systems to automatically send a consultation summary back to the patient’s registered practice in the form of a PDF document, detailing the consultation and actions taken.
These products will save time for clinicians, and provide better, more convenient care for patients. It will also help meet targets under NHS England’s Improving Access to General Practice programme.
The programme is supporting Extended Access Providers, the creation of Primary Care Networks and the Local Health Care Record Exemplar approaches highlighted in the NHS Long Term Plan.
You can see a GP Connect consumer system demonstrator that shows what GP Connect looks like when integrated with an electronic patient record (EPR) or Trust portal system.
The programme team is now looking at how we can extend our current products and introduce additional services to better meet the interoperability needs of health and care organisations. Find out more about our future developments.
Begin using GP Connect in your service
Supplier integration to GP Connect - progress
GP Connect usage
Further information
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internal GP Connect case studies
Discover how GP Connect is helping care organisations to address challenges they face.
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internal GP Connect specifications for developers
GP Connect specifications for developers and associated artefacts.
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internal Getting involved with GP Connect
We are supporting partnerships of health and care organisations and software suppliers to develop products that can use the data made available by the GP Connect APIs.
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internal GP Connect information for patients
Patient information on changes to who can access your GP record to support health and care in the response to the coronvirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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internal GP Connect - future developments
Discover how GP Connect aims to enhance the services it offers, and how this is predicted to benefit patients, staff and the NHS.
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internal Receive NHS 111 Reports directly into your GP clinical system
Learn how NHS 111 reports are received into GP practices, and how the process has changed to accommodate COVID-19 information.
Last edited: 8 April 2021 12:53 pm