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Preparing for an outpatient clinic of 4 new and 11 review patients took 1h 40mins undisturbed time today. That’s only ‘chasing’ known facts of Diagnoses, Meds, Results ie a usable IT process would have saved me & #NHS 1h 40mins @PeteGordon68 @amirhannan
Because #NHS has no way to digitally transact Meds list from GP database to Hospital a list like this has to be retyped by someone wasting gigahours across #NHS - I type it once then sort A-Z & save a file for each visit - load for next visit & edit - but I understand efficiency
Commonly the Meds list comes from GP is rewritten by hand by Consultant in outpatients then dictated to secretary who types it out - think of the billions of outpatient attendances and how many manual duplications (often with errors) What a glorious mess of inefficiency
Then the same happens with the list of diagnoses, smoking and alcohol history, every test result! No wonder patients’ records are full of factual errors and errors of omission and creation @DrUmeshPrabhu @TimRayment
And if the patient attends three departments in the same hospital within a week each department starts from scratch each time rewriting, dictating and typing the same information which by the end has suffered #ChineseWhispers @AnnieBtransport
And in #NHSEngland generally if you attend a second Hospital they can see none of the information in the letters etc from the first Hospital so they write a list of Meds, Diagnoses etc, dictate, type - creating a new mixture of your information @ingridbrindle
