NHS to go paperless by 2015 - is it possible or a good idea?
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It was announced today at the Healthcare Efficiency through Technology Expo that the government is aiming to make the NHS "paperless" by 2015. Tim Kelsey the NHS Commissioning Board’s informatic
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NHS to go paperless by 2015 - is it possible or a good idea?
posted at 9/10/2012 4:03 PM BST
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It was announced today at the Healthcare Efficiency through Technology Expo that the government is aiming to make the NHS "paperless" by 2015. Tim Kelsey the NHS Commissioning Board’s informatics chief.told the Healthcare Efficiency said “I am pushing for the end of 2015 to be the moment that we eradicate paper from the NHS.” He claimed that this would lead to a safer experience for patients with no more referral letters or lost records. http://www.hsj.co.uk/government-to-commit-the-nhs-to-a-paperless-future/5050419.article Can he really mean all paper? Surely some use of the old fashioned paper and pen is still going to be useful? What could they not afford to get rid of? Could you work without paper? Surely portable devices etc will all need charging? |
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Re: NHS to go paperless by 2015 - is it possible or a good idea?
posted at 9/10/2012 4:42 PM BST
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Although its feasable for some most notes etc to be computerised I agree Im not sure the NHS will ever be truely paperless. In a crash situation your scribe will still scrawl times on a sheet of paper, or sometimes even the back of their glove! Nurses will still favour physical signatures, and when documenting skin lesions / injuries we will still like to draw them (although that may be possible electronically). Growth charts for children are currently a sticking point as they need adding to on each visit and most eletronic notes systems dont allow for electronic entries to be changed. When explaining cardiac lesions to parents I will still prefer to draw them out and theres nothing like a printed out ECG for drawing all over to teach medical students. I think with some planning then some of these things can be dealth with, but there will always be a place for paper in the NHS |
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Re: NHS to go paperless by 2015 - is it possible or a good idea?
posted at 9/10/2012 5:32 PM BST
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Agree with DrS - GP land is largely paperless in theory but in essence what that really means is paper-light and that will always be the case. Our biggest source of paper documents remains secondary care so any reduction in that would be most welcome! |
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