GPs demand ‘urgent action’ on GPASS
Leading GP IT representatives have written to Scottish health minister Andy Kerr to demand urgent action to improve the GPASS computer system. The letter sent by the chairs of the joint IT committee of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the General Practitioner Committee claims GPASS is not fit for purpose, is putting patient […]
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GPASS users doubt future use in national records
Ministerial claims that the troubled GP system GPASS will be central to the development of the national electronic single record in Scotland have been dismissed by the system’s own user group. Andy Kerr, Scottish health minister, told GP newspaper Pulse last week that GPASS would be "an incredibly important part of IT developments in Scotland […]
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iSoft Synergy clears Scottish accreditation hurdle
iSoft has announced that it has achieved the Scottish Enhanced Functionality accreditation for its Synergy Enterprise application for GPs and other primary care providers. The software was tested in six key areas of functionality including serial dispensing, emergency care summary, diabetes and nurse prescribing. iSoft says the next planned development will be to gain e-pharmacy […]
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Scottish practices make the case for new IT systems
Scottish GPs are exercising their new right to choose their own IT systems with an exodus from the dominant GPASS (GP Administration System for Scotland). Over a quarter of GPASS’ 880 users have submitted business cases to abandon GPASS and obtain funding for new systems, according to Dr Stuart Scott, chair of the British Medical […]
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Scottish practices indicate interest in systems switch
Almost 20 per cent of practices in Scotland have expressed an interest in switching to a different IT system with the vast majority of those wishing to change currently using the centrally funded system GPASS. GPs in Scotland had until the end of October to express an interest in moving to a new clinical computer […]
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Scottish GPs choose to lose GPASS
Large numbers of practices have indicated that they want to move away from the Scottish GP computer system GPASS as part of the Scottish Executive’s new deal on system choice. The deadline for practices that want to change IT system provider is October 31, under the deal on system choice which was agreed between the […]
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GPASS Clinical may run locally
NHS Scotland is considering making the new version of its GPASS clinical system available on local practice servers as well as central servers following pressure from GPs. EHI Primary Care can reveal that NHS Scotland has told the GPASS User Group that it is considering the move, described by the GPASS user group says is essential to speed […]
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Nurse prescribers lack access to computer systems
Lack of access to computer-generated prescriptions is holding back nurse prescribing according to a report published this week. An evaluation of extended formulary nurse prescribing by Southampton University found that the two factors that made nurse prescribing difficult were the limitations of the formulary and lack of computer-generated prescriptions. The report, commissioned by the Department […]
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Scottish GPs say GPASS Clinical rollout too slow
The user group of the Scottish GP system GPASS is urging the Scottish Executive to speed up the rollout of the new version of GPASS which it says is desperately needed by GPs. Dr Andrew McElhinney, chairman of the GPASS User Group, has told the Scottish Executive that GPs need GPASS Clinical now and that […]
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Wrong prescription in second GPASS record error
A second patient has been given the wrong prescription in a repeat of a printer error at a Glasgow practice which computer suppliers GPASS described as an isolated incident when it first happened. The first error happened in January at the C Wing practice in Woodside Health Centre, Glasgow, when two prescriptions went to be […]
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