Http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/newsroom/news/awardofcontract250407
or
http://shorterlink.co.uk/12560
CfH has awarded the contract for the evaluation of the early adopter
program for the Summary Care Record.
I am particularly interested in the people they need to interview in
depth
"The evaluation team will conduct extensive fieldwork within the early
adopter Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), immersing themselves in the reality
of implementation and usage of the Summary Care Record on the ground.
The views and experiences of GPs, nurses, patients and the public,
practice managers and other clinical and administrative staff using the
Summary Care Record will all be captured."
With the deepest respect, if this is, indeed, the remit, they seem to
have missed out the clinical groups expected to benefit from the whole,
thoroughly expensive, exercise namely emergency care services such as
paramedics and emergency medicine, OOH and secondary care services.
I suspect that their responses will be partly influenced by ease and
means of access: if *you* had to boot up windows and log on using a
smart card by the roadside in an emergency , I suspect the your replies
might be biased by the technology!
Any views and any information on where - and if - the terms of the
evaluation can be viewed?
If they are not public now (if not, why not?) I really do hope they will
be included in the final report.
Mary
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Mary Hawking
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