Here's the primary care advice:
http://www.rcgp.org.uk/rcgp/clinspec/goodpracticeindex.asp
I'm sure the principles are the same for secondary care.
Jonathan
On Monday, Oct 13, 2003, at 20:00 Europe/London, Jonathan Kay wrote:
> Best legal advice when we did the College guidelines was that
> laboratory medicine reports are part of the medical record and that the
> best medium is paper. See RCPath 1999 recommendations.
>
> However Burton have been paperless for some time and I'm not aware of
> any medicolegal problems. Any comments, Tim...?
>
> There is DoH guidance for primary care saying that paper is not needed,
> but not for secondary care. I think this has been recently updated...
> I'll find the URL.
>
> How about starting with cumulative reports only,... drops the filing
> dramatically.
>
> But if you have an appropriate level of agreement in the hospital, and
> do the risk assessment, and document the process I doubt if anything
> awful will happen.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Monday, Oct 13, 2003, at 17:09 Europe/London, Colley, Michael wrote:
>
>> We are considering stopping sending paper reports to the wards, since
>> they
>> all have good computer access to results.
>>
>> Does anyone have experience of this?
>> What objections were raised to it?
>> What did you do about the objections?
>>
>> Are there any guidelines on the retention of paper reports - I know
>> the
>> college has issued guidelines on retention of reports, but anything
>> specific
>> about paper?
>>
>> Do your histopathologists insist on sending a paper report?
>>
>> What about radiology?
>>
>> Does your hospital IMS flag up to a requester that he has results to
>> be
>> looked at and does it send the results to a dedicated mailbox?
>>
>>
>> Very interested in your answers to these and any related qq. you may
>> think
>> of.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> Dr. C. M. Colley
>> Consultant Chemical Pathologist
>> The Great Western Hospital
>> Swindon SN3 6BB
>>
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