Changes to ensure accurate information recording on patients records are being made on GP Connect Access Record: HTML

Earlier this year, to help users of GP Connect Access Record: HTML quickly identify COVID19 related information on a patient record, we introduced an ‘Emergency codes’ section on the Summary view. This ‘Emergency codes’ section brought together coded information relating to COVID19 which would otherwise appear across a number of the views and be interspersed with other records.

Since the introduction of this ‘Emergency codes’ section the NHS has come a long way in fighting COVID19 so new clinical codes are needed to ensure accurate recording of information on patient records. A recent example is the administration of COVID19 vaccinations.

This week, TPP made a change to include the latest set of COVID19 codes in the ‘Emergency codes’ section. These will now appear whenever recorded in the patient’s record. EMIS will be making the same change in the new year with the date to be confirmed.

Vision and Eva Health do not currently display the ‘Emergency codes’ section of the Summary view but for those accessing these systems in the limited FOT capacity the codes will be available in the relevant section of the HTML view.

Users of Access Record: HTML are advised not to rely solely on the ‘Emergency codes’ section, or indeed the Summary view, and should consult all relevant sections of the HTML view when providing care.

There’s no requirement for existing consumers of Access Record HTML to uplift as this is primarily a reference set update and does not require a specification change.

The GP Connect programme is looking at how we develop our products. We’ve had feedback that sharing tasks and actions between primary care and other settings would be of benefit – especially in the context of Primary Care Networks and Integrated Care Networks. 

We are hosting two webinars to present our findings and to seek further input to the following questions:

• How are tasks requested? 
• What are the problems areas? 

Our objective is to better understand the challenges around how health and care organisations share actions for patient’s health care. 

Webinar 1 - How are tasks and actions shared now? - 2 July 2020 14:00 – 15:00

Our first webinar will share scenarios and personas and how tasks and actions are currently shared between health care settings. We would recommend that if you are planning to join any of these webinars that you start with this one to understand the concepts we will be discussing.

Webinar 2 - A map of challenges and needs in sharing tasks - 9 July 14:00 – 15:00

The second webinar will discuss a map of challenges and user needs in sharing of tasks and actions between various health care settings that interface with primary care.

Register for these webinars.

The GP Connect team are in the initial stages of planning and research for the future development of the product and potential creation of new products. To help us to make the very best products to support wider use of GP Connect, we need input from you to help us shape what comes next.

We’re particularly interested in the needs of Primary Care Networks and Integrated Care Services, but we welcome input from a wide group of roles and professionals, so whether you’re delivering care or building systems if you’re interested in using digital tools to improve patient outcomes we have a team waiting to speak to you.

If you would like to get involved in shaping the future of interoperable healthcare, please send us your contact details and a brief summary of your role to GPconnect@nhs.net.

We’ve enabled GP Connect on EMIS and TPP GP clinical systems to meet the operational requirements of the Covid Clinical Assessment Service (CCAS).

GP practices need to configure GP Connect to allow appointment sharing with CCAS so patients suspected of suffering from coronavirus (COVID-19) can be referred to their GP.

We are working with Microtest and Vision to have this functionality available on their GP clinical systems.

Find out what you need to do to get appointment sharing working.

We have listened to feedback from people using the Access Record: HTML product. As a result, we will be introducing changes to the layout and content of some of the HTML views you’re used to seeing. These focus on the Medications, Problems and Issues, and Summary Views.

As what you see is determined by your system owner, what you see will vary but the changes being made will provide additional information where it was missing and some restructuring of existing data to improve visibility. For example, on Summary View, you told us that having the patient’s last three consultations information visible at the top of the page would be better. So that’s what we’re doing.

You can find out more about the specific changes being made on the Access Record HTML 0.7.2 upgrade page.