Patient Online Access – A Guide For Primary Care – UPDATE – May 2023

With the ongoing debate around prospective access to patient records, we have looked at an improved offer for our local patients across the North East London ICS region. This is as an alternative to the automatic prospective access that NHSE have proposed and are asking practices to sign up to.

We are encouraging all our patients to interact with NHS services through the NHS App as this will also allow patients to:

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Energy Meal Recipes!

And now for something completely different!!
As patients of mine approach the month of fasting in Ramadan, I often get asked about foods that will help satiety over the day and ensure fasting is as comfortable as possible. These energy meal recipes can be used for maintaining satiety and energy outside of fasting as well as for those fasting in Ramadan or any time throughout the year.

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GP Practice Options for Prospective Online Access

As the deadline for the 1st November approaches to switch on Prospective Online Record Access for patients to view their GP record, there is quite a lot of confusion as to what needs to be initiated and completed by GP practices. This has not been helped by the delay by NHS England publishing guidance and clinical safety documentation and the clinical systems changing the way that records should be prepared. Based on current issues, I have discussed the issues and considered some options for GP Primary Care.

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Managing Online Visibility in EMIS Web

There are lots of developments and changes happening within EMIS Web that are changes that are being introduced in advance of opening up patient access to GP records.

Overall, patient access to medical records is something that we should be encouraging and supporting, but it needs to be done with adequate safeguards in place.

Here, I have discussed a recent EMIS change that changes the way that online access visibility is managed within EMIS Web.

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Productivity with EMIS Web – Tip 2

In this second tip on speeding up EMIS Web, we got EMIS to look at some of our PCs and discovered that there is a common – but often overlooked reason for PCs to slow down.

It’s all to do with keeping EMIS Web workflow clean!

We got our IT facilitators to go round and support practices with this tip and it made a noticeable impact to speeding up EMIS!

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