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Open Monday-Friday Branch Surgeries INGLETON WRAY Telephone Enquires Tel: 015242 61202 Repeat Prescriptions Tel: 015242 42497 Surgery Closed Tel: 015242 61202 Out of Hours services are provided by Website updated |
YOUR HEALTH RECORDS All our patient health records are kept electronically on the practice computer system. We still store the old paper notes from which we have recorded all the key events in everyone's medical history on the computer record. The benefits of using computers rather than paper to keep our records have been huge. It would not be possible to provide a modern standard of health care with an emphasis on illness prevention and health promotion with paper records. Information technology is also a powerful means of helping patients use our services through MyPractice Online. You can now book appointments, request repeat prescriptions and view a summary of your medical record on-line. If you want to know more about our internet services please talk to a receptionist. Our computer system is supplied by the company, EMIS Ltd, the leading supplier of specialist systems to General Practice in the UK. Back in 1989 we were the second practice to install one of their systems. They now supply over half the practices in the UK, the Ministry of Defence and medical practices in Canada and Australia. The NHS is about to introduce the Summary Care Record. This means at first that the details of your medication and allergies will be copied from our practice computer system to the NHS Spine, the national NHS computer system. The aim is to make the latest information available to any health professional providing you with care anywhere in the NHS. In March 2010, we wrote to all our patients offering our advice about the Summary Care Record. There is a copy of the letter here. Since then the progress of the scheme has been interupted and it has not yet been adopted in North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust.
Information Governance This is the term used to describe the rules that control how we create, store, protect and share all our records, including your health records. The practice has to be registered under the Data Protection Act. We have to comply with NHS Information Governance requirements. Click here for an extract from our practice "Information Governance Policy" that outlines our approach to looking after your health records.
Data Disclosure There are times when it is appropriate for the practice to disclose confidential patient information to people outside the practice. In making the decision to disclose such information we follow the latest legal and professional standards. Dr Sullivan is the author of this section of the Department of Health's advice to GPs on this topic in the Good Practice Guidelines on General Practice Electronic Patient Records (chapter 4.8) and he is Medical Advisor to the project being developed by the NHS Information Authority that will enable the NHS to extract and use patient records to help run the NHS (the GP Extraction Service). |
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