GP Connect

The GP Connect team is pleased to announce that Full Rollout Approval has been achieved with TPP for their Appointment Management capability in support of the GP Connect Programme.

Appointment Management is an important deliverable for GP Connect in support of the Improving Access to GP Practices agenda. Appointment Management will make it simpler for primary care networks to view and book appointments for patients across the network. It also supports appointment bookings via supporting services such as NHS 111.

At GP Connect, we recently asked for feedback on how we should prioritise the 12 clinical areas we had identified for the development of our Access Record: Structured capability.  

The results of our survey are now in and we are grateful for those of you who participated. We also wanted to share these and to update you on how this has informed our development priorities.

The good news is that Problems, Consultations, Uncategorised Data and Immunisations ranked high in your priorities and we already have a detailed specification for these that we published at the end of June 2019. 

Pathology, Documents and Outbound Referrals were also identified as high priority and a specification is due to be published for these by the end of September 2019.

The remaining areas including ‘Flags/Alerts, Appointments, Test Requests, Diary Entry, Demographics, Patient Consent and Incoming referrals’ will be completed, and a specification published by the end of December 2019.

Our decision-making process considered which capabilities would provide maximum clinical benefit as well as your feedback.

Please note:  Meds and Allergies was ranked number one priority. The specification for this has already been published  and build with a number of suppliers is in an advanced state. 

Please contact us at gpconnect@nhs.net should you have any questions relating to this.

EMIS has achieved full roll-out approval for their Access Record: HTML capability as part of the GP Connect programme for their EMIS Web clinical system. 

This is another  important step in delivering the government's vision of better supporting clinical care by opening up information and data held within GP Practice IT core systems. More information will follow soon.

We are delighted to announce that TPP has become the first GP system supplier to achieve full roll-out approval for Access Record: HTML as part of NHS Digital’s GP Connect programme. The programme ensures that staff across the NHS can access vital information from GP practice records.

This full roll-out approval marks a major step forward for the GP Connect programme and the national interoperability initiative. It will help to deliver better care for patients across care settings and improve coordination between staff working across primary care networks. 

GP Connect Access Record: HTML is now integrated with the Adastra clinical patient management system. This means 111 and Integrated Urgent Care (IUC) service providers will be able to view a patient’s up-to-date record held by their own GP and given access to a range of important information about a patient including encounters, allergies, medications, referrals and more.

Find out more about GP Connect Access Record: HTML.