Thank you, Tim
Brian
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From: TIM WALTER [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 23 January 2004 10:01
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Richard Grainger opens his gob
dr brian crowley <mailto:[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Oops, forgot the title 'cos I was getting all airated
>
> Brian
And now you IT illiterate GP, you've forgotten the content of your own
message. Perhaps he is right... :-)
Here it is so everyone can follow the thread...
"There are GPs in the IT community and GPs who want to be in the IT
community who are passing comment. I would ask them to question their record
in creating the present inefficiencies, because they were there when it
happened."
...and I suppose a civil servant with no experience of using or developing
current GP IT systems knows what's best for us?
Does Richard Granger in fact have even a vague concept of how much time,
effort and GPs' own money has gone into trying to tune and tweak the systems
which we have available to us to enable them to do the things we want in the
way we want?
If NPfIT has the time, know-how and money to develop an all-singing,
all-dancing, made-to-measure clinical system which will deliver on nGMS and
enable us to do what we currently do and more without loss of data on
changeover, and provide it to us free/gratis and maintain and support it,
fine. As users I think we'd all be very happy with that position. But it
isn't going to happen. Not within an acceptable time-frame.
To be able to do the job we are paid to do, we need systems which we know
and understand. Consulting in 10 mins or less, and needing to be able to
enter important data to improve patient care, require users to be au fait
with the system they use.
Being forced to change to an unfamiliar system would result in loss of data
with the consequent risk to patient health, lengthened consultations, and
significant costs - financial and temporal - in training clinicians and
practice staff which of course would not be fully funded centrally.
Once again practices could look forward to financing the health service.
Perhaps future industrial action should be focused on IT systems - boycott
them.
Brian
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Tim Walter
http://www.falklandsurgery.co.uk
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