Grateful for all this. Good to see we are not too far behind best
practice.
I think managers rarely appreciate the complexity of all this.
Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: IT working group of the Association of Clinical Biochemists
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Kay
Sent: 27 March 2008 17:26
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Subject: Stopping paper reports from Laboratory Medicine
Just realised that my previous posting was misleading.
In Oxford I've written a proposal for getting rid of paper reports in
secondary care... it hasn't happened yet.
We've stopped sending paper reports to 56 of our 86 general practices...
see previous threads in the archives.
Jonathan
On 27 Mar 2008, at 17:16, Jonathan Kay wrote:
> I'll get our proposal to you tomorrow.
>
> The biggest issue we found is... clinicians working in outpatients who
> rely on the arrival of the paper report as the notification that the
> report is available.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On 27 Mar 2008, at 16:53, Richard Jones [Pathology] wrote:
>
>> ...if only!
>>
>> More seriuously I've been asked to write up a position paper for the
>> Trust on paperless reporting. I've always ducked this in the past
>> because of the complexity of the legal and organisational issues.
>>
>> Has anyone got such a paper already - or a policy paper which covers
>> it and/or any national guidance material.
>>
>> If you have I'd be grateful to receive it - anything to reduce more
>> paper production
>>
>> Thanks in anticipation
>>
>> Rick
>>
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