GP2GP hits 100,000 transfers

  • 10 April 2008

Connecting for Health has announced that GP2GP has now completed over 100,000 electronic health record transfers.

To date, 149 primary care trusts – more than 4,000 practices – are using the clinical systems EMIS LV 5.2 and INPS Vision 3 to transfer records between GP practices.

GP2GP enables patients’ electronic health records to be transferred directly and securely between GP practices.

It is designed to improve patient care, as GPs will usually have full and detailed medical records available to them for a new patient’s first consultation.

CfH said that Hampshire PCT has so far performed the highest level of GP2GP record transfers.

Dr Simon Sherwin, a GP at Waterfront Garden Surgery, in Hampshire said: “We’ve been active with GP2GP for about six months now. I have to say that when we receive notes this way it is tremendously fast and in most cases the electronic record is received by the next working day.

“Notes from the same clinical system integrate seamlessly – the beauty is that all the electronic information is there.”

Further suppliers and software products will be joining the roll out at a later date and the benefits of the system will be increasingly realised as more and more practices become GP2GP-enabled, CfH added.

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